Data processing device and data processing method

ABSTRACT

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15, 11/15, or 13/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of LDPC codes after the group-wise interleave is returned to an original sequence. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a case where data transmission using an LDPC code or the like is performed.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No.15/980,374, filed on May 15, 2018, which is a continuation of U.S.application Ser. No. 15/122,439, filed Aug. 30, 2016, which is aNational Stage of PCT/JP2015/056597, filed Mar. 6, 2015 and claims thebenefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese Patent ApplicationNo. 2014-056461, filed Mar. 19, 2014. The entire contents of each of theabove-noted applications are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a dataprocessing method, and more particularly, to a data processing deviceand a data processing method capable of securing excellent communicationquality, for example, in data transmission using an LDPC code.

BACKGROUND ART

Some of information presented in the present specification and drawingswas provided by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, representedas Samsung), LGE Inc., NERC, and CRC/ETRI (indicated in the drawings).

A low density parity check (LDPC) code has a high error correctioncapability, and in recent years, the LDPC code has widely been employedin transmission schemes of digital broadcasting such as Digital VideoBroadcasting (DVB)-S.2, DVB-T.2, and DVB-C.2 of Europe and the like, orAdvanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 of the USA and the like(for example, see Non-Patent Document 1).

From a recent study, it is known that performance near a Shannon limitis acquired from the LDPC code when a code length increases, similarlyto a turbo code or the like. Since the LDPC code has a property that ashortest distance is proportional to the code length, the LDPC code hasadvantages of a block error probability characteristic being superiorand a so-called error floor phenomenon observed in a decodingcharacteristic of the turbo code or the like rarely occurring ascharacteristics thereof.

CITATION LIST Non-Patent Document

-   Non-Patent Document 1: DVB-S.2: ETSI EN 302 307 V1.2.1 (2009    October)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

In data transmission using the LDPC code, for example, the LDPC code isconverted into a symbol of a quadrature modulation (digital modulation)such as Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), and the symbol is mappedto a signal point of the quadrature modulation and is transmitted.

The data transmission using the LDPC code as above has spread worldwide,and there is a demand to secure excellent communication (transmission)quality.

The present technology is in consideration of such a situation andenables the securement of excellent communication quality in datatransmission using an LDPC code.

Solutions to Problems

According to the present technology, there is provided a first dataprocessing device/method including: a coding unit/step that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit/step that performs group-wise interleave interleavingthe LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mappingunit/step that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25,31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147,15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28,17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65,129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3,37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118,131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26,164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60,49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178,80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156,126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168,167, 53, and 35,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

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55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 2393825476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

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7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 2047020736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 2310723128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 1905320537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 2254722756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 1995122449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 2455625031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

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1595 6216 22850 25439

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7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

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8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

In the first data processing device/method as described above, LDPCcoding is performed on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rater of 9/15,group-wise interleave interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groupsof 360 bits is performed, and the LDPC code is mapped into one of 1024signal points determined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10bits. In the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group froma head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25,31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147,15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28,17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65,129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3,37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118,131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26,164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60,49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178,80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156,126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168,167, 53, and 35.

The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 1607917363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 2150222023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 1652619782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 1888220819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 2337424046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 2333623367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 2085823803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 2194124137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 2393825476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 2526225566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 2047020736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 2310723128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 1905320537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 2254722756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 1995122449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 2455625031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 2050322228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 2199624136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 2339723423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

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8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

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11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

According to the present technology, there is provided a second dataprocessing device/method including a group-wise deinterleaving unit/stepthat returns a sequence of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleavethat is acquired from data transmitted from a transmitting device to anoriginal state. The transmitting device includes: a coding unit thatperforms LDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15; agroup-wise interleaving unit that performs group-wise interleaveinterleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping unit that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25,31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147,15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28,17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65,129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3,37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118,131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26,164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60,49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178,80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156,126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168,167, 53, and 35,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 1607917363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 2150222023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 1652619782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 1888220819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 2337424046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 2333623367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 2085823803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 2194124137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 2393825476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 2526225566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 2047020736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 2310723128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 1905320537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 2254722756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 1995122449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 2455625031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 2050322228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 2199624136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 2339723423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

In the second data processing device/method as above, a sequence of theLDPC code after the group-wise interleave that is acquired from datatransmitted from a transmitting device is returned to an original state,wherein the transmitting device includes: a coding unit that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit that performs group-wise interleave interleaving theLDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit thatmaps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal points determined accordingto a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits, wherein, in the group-wiseinterleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeas a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25,31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147,15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28,17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65,129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3,37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118,131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26,164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60,49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178,80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156,126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168,167, 53, and 35,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 1607917363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 2150222023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 1652619782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 1888220819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 2337424046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 2333623367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 2085823803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 2194124137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 2393825476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 2526225566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 2047020736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 2310723128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 1905320537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 2254722756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 1995122449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 2455625031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 2050322228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 2199624136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 2339723423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

According to the present technology, there is provided a third dataprocessing device/method including: a coding unit/step that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 11/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit/step that performs group-wise interleave interleavingthe LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mappingunit/step that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57,42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58,77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61,70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74,89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97,133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104,132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106,134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121,105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155,176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179,118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21,and 159,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the LDPC codeincludes information bits and parity bits, the parity check matrixincludes an information matrix portion corresponding to the informationbits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, theinformation matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrixinitial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table isa table representing a position of an element “1” in the informationmatrix portion for every 360 columns and is

696 989 1238 3091 3116 3738 4269 6406 7033 8048 9157 10254 12033 1645616912

444 1488 6541 8626 10735 12447 13111 13706 14135 15195 15947 16453 1691617137 17268

401 460 992 1145 1576 1678 2238 2320 4280 6770 10027 12486 15363 1671417157

1161 3108 3727 4508 5092 5348 5582 7727 11793 12515 12917 13362 1424716717 17205

542 1190 6883 7911 8349 8835 10489 11631 14195 15009 15454 15482 1663217040 17063

17 487 776 880 5077 6172 9771 11446 12798 16016 16109 16171 17087 1713217226

1337 3275 3462 4229 9246 10180 10845 10866 12250 13633 14482 16024 1681217186 17241

15 980 2305 3674 5971 8224 11499 11752 11770 12897 14082 14836 1531116391 17209

0 3926 5869 8696 9351 9391 11371 14052 14172 14636 14974 16619 1696117033 17237

3033 5317 6501 8579 10698 12168 12966 14019 15392 15806 15991 1649316690 17062 17090

981 1205 4400 6410 11003 13319 13405 14695 15846 16297 16492 16563 1661616862 16953

1725 4276 8869 9588 14062 14486 15474 15548 16300 16432 17042 1705017060 17175 17273

1807 5921 9960 10011 14305 14490 14872 15852 16054 16061 16306 1679916833 17136 17262

2826 4752 6017 6540 7016 8201 14245 14419 14716 15983 16569 16652 1717117179 17247

1662 2516 3345 5229 8086 9686 11456 12210 14595 15808 16011 16421 1682517112 17195

2890 4821 5987 7226 8823 9869 12468 14694 15352 15805 16075 16462 1710217251 17263

3751 3890 4382 5720 10281 10411 11350 12721 13121 14127 14980 1520215335 16735 17123

26 30 2805 5457 6630 7188 7477 7556 11065 16608 16859 16909 16943 1703017103

40 4524 5043 5566 9645 10204 10282 11696 13080 14837 15607 16274 1703417225 17266

904 3157 6284 7151 7984 11712 12887 13767 15547 16099 16753 16829 1704417250 17259

7 311 4876 8334 9249 11267 14072 14559 15003 15235 15686 16331 1717717238 17253

4410 8066 8596 9631 10369 11249 12610 15769 16791 16960 17018 1703717062 17165 17204

24 8261 9691 10138 11607 12782 12786 13424 13933 15262 15795 16476 1708417193 17220

88 11622 14705 15890

304 2026 2638 6018

1163 4268 11620 17232

9701 11785 14463 17260

4118 10952 12224 17006

3647 10823 11521 12060

1717 3753 9199 11642

2187 14280 17220

14787 16903 17061

381 3534 4294

3149 6947 8323

12562 16724 16881

7289 9997 15306

5615 13152 17260

5666 16926 17027

4190 7798 16831

4778 10629 17180

10001 13884 15453

6 2237 8203

7831 15144 15160

9186 17204 17243

9435 17168 17237

42 5701 17159

7812 14259 15715

39 4513 6658

38 9368 11273

1119 4785 17182

5620 16521 16729

16 6685 17242

210 3452 12383

466 14462 16250

10548 12633 13962

1452 6005 16453

22 4120 13684

5195 11563 16522

5518 16705 17201

12233 14552 15471

6067 13440 17248

8660 8967 17061

8673 12176 15051

5959 15767 16541

3244 12109 12414

31 15913 16323

3270 15686 16653

24 7346 14675

12 1531 8740

6228 7565 16667

16936 17122 17162

4868 8451 13183

3714 4451 16919

11313 13801 17132

17070 17191 17242

1911 11201 17186

14 17190 17254

11760 16008 16832

14543 17033 17278

16129 16765 17155

6891 15561 17007

12741 14744 17116

8992 16661 17277

1861 11130 16742

4822 13331 16192

13281 14027 14989

38 14887 17141

10698 13452 15674

4 2539 16877

857 17170 17249

11449 11906 12867

285 14118 16831

15191 17214 17242

39 728 16915

2469 12969 15579

16644 17151 17164

2592 8280 10448

9236 12431 17173

9064 16892 17233

4526 16146 17038

31 2116 16083

15837 16951 17031

5362 8382 16618

6137 13199 17221

2841 15068 17068

24 3620 17003

9880 15718 16764

1784 10240 17209

2731 10293 10846

3121 8723 16598

8563 15662 17088

13 1167 14676

29 13850 15963

3654 7553 8114

23 4362 14865

4434 14741 16688

8362 13901 17244

13687 16736 17232

46 4229 13394

13169 16383 16972

16031 16681 16952

3384 9894 12580

9841 14414 16165

5013 17099 17115

2130 8941 17266

6907 15428 17241

16 1860 17235

2151 16014 16643

14954 15958 17222

3969 8419 15116

31 15593 16984

11514 16605 17255.

In the third data processing device/method as described above, LDPCcoding is performed on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 11/15,group-wise interleave interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groupsof 360 bits is performed, and the LDPC code is mapped into one of 1024signal points determined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10bits. In the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group froma head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57,42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58,77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61,70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74,89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97,133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104,132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106,134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121,105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155,176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179,118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21,and 159.

The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

696 989 1238 3091 3116 3738 4269 6406 7033 8048 9157 10254 12033 1645616912

444 1488 6541 8626 10735 12447 13111 13706 14135 15195 15947 16453 1691617137 17268

401 460 992 1145 1576 1678 2238 2320 4280 6770 10027 12486 15363 1671417157

1161 3108 3727 4508 5092 5348 5582 7727 11793 12515 12917 13362 1424716717 17205

542 1190 6883 7911 8349 8835 10489 11631 14195 15009 15454 15482 1663217040 17063

17 487 776 880 5077 6172 9771 11446 12798 16016 16109 16171 17087 1713217226

1337 3275 3462 4229 9246 10180 10845 10866 12250 13633 14482 16024 1681217186 17241

15 980 2305 3674 5971 8224 11499 11752 11770 12897 14082 14836 1531116391 17209

0 3926 5869 8696 9351 9391 11371 14052 14172 14636 14974 16619 1696117033 17237

3033 5317 6501 8579 10698 12168 12966 14019 15392 15806 15991 1649316690 17062 17090

981 1205 4400 6410 11003 13319 13405 14695 15846 16297 16492 16563 1661616862 16953

1725 4276 8869 9588 14062 14486 15474 15548 16300 16432 17042 1705017060 17175 17273

1807 5921 9960 10011 14305 14490 14872 15852 16054 16061 16306 1679916833 17136 17262

2826 4752 6017 6540 7016 8201 14245 14419 14716 15983 16569 16652 1717117179 17247

1662 2516 3345 5229 8086 9686 11456 12210 14595 15808 16011 16421 1682517112 17195

2890 4821 5987 7226 8823 9869 12468 14694 15352 15805 16075 16462 1710217251 17263

3751 3890 4382 5720 10281 10411 11350 12721 13121 14127 14980 1520215335 16735 17123

26 30 2805 5457 6630 7188 7477 7556 11065 16608 16859 16909 16943 1703017103

40 4524 5043 5566 9645 10204 10282 11696 13080 14837 15607 16274 1703417225 17266

904 3157 6284 7151 7984 11712 12887 13767 15547 16099 16753 16829 1704417250 17259

7 311 4876 8334 9249 11267 14072 14559 15003 15235 15686 16331 1717717238 17253

4410 8066 8596 9631 10369 11249 12610 15769 16791 16960 17018 1703717062 17165 17204

24 8261 9691 10138 11607 12782 12786 13424 13933 15262 15795 16476 1708417193 17220

88 11622 14705 15890

304 2026 2638 6018

1163 4268 11620 17232

9701 11785 14463 17260

4118 10952 12224 17006

3647 10823 11521 12060

1717 3753 9199 11642

2187 14280 17220

14787 16903 17061

381 3534 4294

3149 6947 8323

12562 16724 16881

7289 9997 15306

5615 13152 17260

5666 16926 17027

4190 7798 16831

4778 10629 17180

10001 13884 15453

6 2237 8203

7831 15144 15160

9186 17204 17243

9435 17168 17237

42 5701 17159

7812 14259 15715

39 4513 6658

38 9368 11273

1119 4785 17182

5620 16521 16729

16 6685 17242

210 3452 12383

466 14462 16250

10548 12633 13962

1452 6005 16453

22 4120 13684

5195 11563 16522

5518 16705 17201

12233 14552 15471

6067 13440 17248

8660 8967 17061

8673 12176 15051

5959 15767 16541

3244 12109 12414

31 15913 16323

3270 15686 16653

24 7346 14675

12 1531 8740

6228 7565 16667

16936 17122 17162

4868 8451 13183

3714 4451 16919

11313 13801 17132

17070 17191 17242

1911 11201 17186

14 17190 17254

11760 16008 16832

14543 17033 17278

16129 16765 17155

6891 15561 17007

12741 14744 17116

8992 16661 17277

1861 11130 16742

4822 13331 16192

13281 14027 14989

38 14887 17141

10698 13452 15674

4 2539 16877

857 17170 17249

11449 11906 12867

285 14118 16831

15191 17214 17242

39 728 16915

2469 12969 15579

16644 17151 17164

2592 8280 10448

9236 12431 17173

9064 16892 17233

4526 16146 17038

31 2116 16083

15837 16951 17031

5362 8382 16618

6137 13199 17221

2841 15068 17068

24 3620 17003

9880 15718 16764

1784 10240 17209

2731 10293 10846

3121 8723 16598

8563 15662 17088

13 1167 14676

29 13850 15963

3654 7553 8114

23 4362 14865

4434 14741 16688

8362 13901 17244

13687 16736 17232

46 4229 13394

13169 16383 16972

16031 16681 16952

3384 9894 12580

9841 14414 16165

5013 17099 17115

2130 8941 17266

6907 15428 17241

16 1860 17235

2151 16014 16643

14954 15958 17222

3969 8419 15116

31 15593 16984

11514 16605 17255.

According to the present technology, there is provided a fourth dataprocessing device/method including a group-wise deinterleaving unit/stepthat returns a sequence of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleavethat is acquired from data transmitted from a transmitting device to anoriginal state. The transmitting device includes: a coding unit thatperforms LDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 11/15;a group-wise interleaving unit that performs group-wise interleaveinterleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping unit that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57,42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58,77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61,70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74,89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97,133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104,132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106,134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121,105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155,176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179,118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21,and 159,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

696 989 1238 3091 3116 3738 4269 6406 7033 8048 9157 10254 12033 1645616912

444 1488 6541 8626 10735 12447 13111 13706 14135 15195 15947 16453 1691617137 17268

401 460 992 1145 1576 1678 2238 2320 4280 6770 10027 12486 15363 1671417157

1161 3108 3727 4508 5092 5348 5582 7727 11793 12515 12917 13362 1424716717 17205

542 1190 6883 7911 8349 8835 10489 11631 14195 15009 15454 15482 1663217040 17063

17 487 776 880 5077 6172 9771 11446 12798 16016 16109 16171 17087 1713217226

1337 3275 3462 4229 9246 10180 10845 10866 12250 13633 14482 16024 1681217186 17241

15 980 2305 3674 5971 8224 11499 11752 11770 12897 14082 14836 1531116391 17209

0 3926 5869 8696 9351 9391 11371 14052 14172 14636 14974 16619 1696117033 17237

3033 5317 6501 8579 10698 12168 12966 14019 15392 15806 15991 1649316690 17062 17090

981 1205 4400 6410 11003 13319 13405 14695 15846 16297 16492 16563 1661616862 16953

1725 4276 8869 9588 14062 14486 15474 15548 16300 16432 17042 1705017060 17175 17273

1807 5921 9960 10011 14305 14490 14872 15852 16054 16061 16306 1679916833 17136 17262

2826 4752 6017 6540 7016 8201 14245 14419 14716 15983 16569 16652 1717117179 17247

1662 2516 3345 5229 8086 9686 11456 12210 14595 15808 16011 16421 1682517112 17195

2890 4821 5987 7226 8823 9869 12468 14694 15352 15805 16075 16462 1710217251 17263

3751 3890 4382 5720 10281 10411 11350 12721 13121 14127 14980 1520215335 16735 17123

26 30 2805 5457 6630 7188 7477 7556 11065 16608 16859 16909 16943 1703017103

40 4524 5043 5566 9645 10204 10282 11696 13080 14837 15607 16274 1703417225 17266

904 3157 6284 7151 7984 11712 12887 13767 15547 16099 16753 16829 1704417250 17259

7 311 4876 8334 9249 11267 14072 14559 15003 15235 15686 16331 1717717238 17253

4410 8066 8596 9631 10369 11249 12610 15769 16791 16960 17018 1703717062 17165 17204

24 8261 9691 10138 11607 12782 12786 13424 13933 15262 15795 16476 1708417193 17220

88 11622 14705 15890

304 2026 2638 6018

1163 4268 11620 17232

9701 11785 14463 17260

4118 10952 12224 17006

3647 10823 11521 12060

1717 3753 9199 11642

2187 14280 17220

14787 16903 17061

381 3534 4294

3149 6947 8323

12562 16724 16881

7289 9997 15306

5615 13152 17260

5666 16926 17027

4190 7798 16831

4778 10629 17180

10001 13884 15453

6 2237 8203

7831 15144 15160

9186 17204 17243

9435 17168 17237

42 5701 17159

7812 14259 15715

39 4513 6658

38 9368 11273

1119 4785 17182

5620 16521 16729

16 6685 17242

210 3452 12383

466 14462 16250

10548 12633 13962

1452 6005 16453

22 4120 13684

5195 11563 16522

5518 16705 17201

12233 14552 15471

6067 13440 17248

8660 8967 17061

8673 12176 15051

5959 15767 16541

3244 12109 12414

31 15913 16323

3270 15686 16653

24 7346 14675

12 1531 8740

6228 7565 16667

16936 17122 17162

4868 8451 13183

3714 4451 16919

11313 13801 17132

17070 17191 17242

1911 11201 17186

14 17190 17254

11760 16008 16832

14543 17033 17278

16129 16765 17155

6891 15561 17007

12741 14744 17116

8992 16661 17277

1861 11130 16742

4822 13331 16192

13281 14027 14989

38 14887 17141

10698 13452 15674

4 2539 16877

857 17170 17249

11449 11906 12867

285 14118 16831

15191 17214 17242

39 728 16915

2469 12969 15579

16644 17151 17164

2592 8280 10448

9236 12431 17173

9064 16892 17233

4526 16146 17038

31 2116 16083

15837 16951 17031

5362 8382 16618

6137 13199 17221

2841 15068 17068

24 3620 17003

9880 15718 16764

1784 10240 17209

2731 10293 10846

3121 8723 16598

8563 15662 17088

13 1167 14676

29 13850 15963

3654 7553 8114

23 4362 14865

4434 14741 16688

8362 13901 17244

13687 16736 17232

46 4229 13394

13169 16383 16972

16031 16681 16952

3384 9894 12580

9841 14414 16165

5013 17099 17115

2130 8941 17266

6907 15428 17241

16 1860 17235

2151 16014 16643

14954 15958 17222

3969 8419 15116

31 15593 16984

11514 16605 17255.

In the fourth data processing device/method as above, a sequence of theLDPC code after the group-wise interleave that is acquired from datatransmitted from a transmitting device is returned to an original state,wherein the transmitting device includes: a coding unit that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 11/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit that performs group-wise interleave interleaving theLDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit thatmaps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal points determined accordingto a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits, wherein, in the group-wiseinterleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeas a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57,42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58,77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61,70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74,89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97,133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104,132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106,134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121,105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155,176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179,118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21,and 159,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

696 989 1238 3091 3116 3738 4269 6406 7033 8048 9157 10254 12033 1645616912

444 1488 6541 8626 10735 12447 13111 13706 14135 15195 15947 16453 1691617137 17268

401 460 992 1145 1576 1678 2238 2320 4280 6770 10027 12486 15363 1671417157

1161 3108 3727 4508 5092 5348 5582 7727 11793 12515 12917 13362 1424716717 17205

542 1190 6883 7911 8349 8835 10489 11631 14195 15009 15454 15482 1663217040 17063

17 487 776 880 5077 6172 9771 11446 12798 16016 16109 16171 17087 1713217226

1337 3275 3462 4229 9246 10180 10845 10866 12250 13633 14482 16024 1681217186 17241

15 980 2305 3674 5971 8224 11499 11752 11770 12897 14082 14836 1531116391 17209

0 3926 5869 8696 9351 9391 11371 14052 14172 14636 14974 16619 1696117033 17237

3033 5317 6501 8579 10698 12168 12966 14019 15392 15806 15991 1649316690 17062 17090

981 1205 4400 6410 11003 13319 13405 14695 15846 16297 16492 16563 1661616862 16953

1725 4276 8869 9588 14062 14486 15474 15548 16300 16432 17042 1705017060 17175 17273

1807 5921 9960 10011 14305 14490 14872 15852 16054 16061 16306 1679916833 17136 17262

2826 4752 6017 6540 7016 8201 14245 14419 14716 15983 16569 16652 1717117179 17247

1662 2516 3345 5229 8086 9686 11456 12210 14595 15808 16011 16421 1682517112 17195

2890 4821 5987 7226 8823 9869 12468 14694 15352 15805 16075 16462 1710217251 17263

3751 3890 4382 5720 10281 10411 11350 12721 13121 14127 14980 1520215335 16735 17123

26 30 2805 5457 6630 7188 7477 7556 11065 16608 16859 16909 16943 1703017103

40 4524 5043 5566 9645 10204 10282 11696 13080 14837 15607 16274 1703417225 17266

904 3157 6284 7151 7984 11712 12887 13767 15547 16099 16753 16829 1704417250 17259

7 311 4876 8334 9249 11267 14072 14559 15003 15235 15686 16331 1717717238 17253

4410 8066 8596 9631 10369 11249 12610 15769 16791 16960 17018 1703717062 17165 17204

24 8261 9691 10138 11607 12782 12786 13424 13933 15262 15795 16476 1708417193 17220

88 11622 14705 15890

304 2026 2638 6018

1163 4268 11620 17232

9701 11785 14463 17260

4118 10952 12224 17006

3647 10823 11521 12060

1717 3753 9199 11642

2187 14280 17220

14787 16903 17061

381 3534 4294

3149 6947 8323

12562 16724 16881

7289 9997 15306

5615 13152 17260

5666 16926 17027

4190 7798 16831

4778 10629 17180

10001 13884 15453

6 2237 8203

7831 15144 15160

9186 17204 17243

9435 17168 17237

42 5701 17159

7812 14259 15715

39 4513 6658

38 9368 11273

1119 4785 17182

5620 16521 16729

16 6685 17242

210 3452 12383

466 14462 16250

10548 12633 13962

1452 6005 16453

22 4120 13684

5195 11563 16522

5518 16705 17201

12233 14552 15471

6067 13440 17248

8660 8967 17061

8673 12176 15051

5959 15767 16541

3244 12109 12414

31 15913 16323

3270 15686 16653

24 7346 14675

12 1531 8740

6228 7565 16667

16936 17122 17162

4868 8451 13183

3714 4451 16919

11313 13801 17132

17070 17191 17242

1911 11201 17186

14 17190 17254

11760 16008 16832

14543 17033 17278

16129 16765 17155

6891 15561 17007

12741 14744 17116

8992 16661 17277

1861 11130 16742

4822 13331 16192

13281 14027 14989

38 14887 17141

10698 13452 15674

4 2539 16877

857 17170 17249

11449 11906 12867

285 14118 16831

15191 17214 17242

39 728 16915

2469 12969 15579

16644 17151 17164

2592 8280 10448

9236 12431 17173

9064 16892 17233

4526 16146 17038

31 2116 16083

15837 16951 17031

5362 8382 16618

6137 13199 17221

2841 15068 17068

24 3620 17003

9880 15718 16764

1784 10240 17209

2731 10293 10846

3121 8723 16598

8563 15662 17088

13 1167 14676

29 13850 15963

3654 7553 8114

23 4362 14865

4434 14741 16688

8362 13901 17244

13687 16736 17232

46 4229 13394

13169 16383 16972

16031 16681 16952

3384 9894 12580

9841 14414 16165

5013 17099 17115

2130 8941 17266

6907 15428 17241

16 1860 17235

2151 16014 16643

14954 15958 17222

3969 8419 15116

31 15593 16984

11514 16605 17255.

According to the present technology, there is provided a fifth dataprocessing device/method including: a coding unit/step that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit/step that performs group-wise interleave interleavingthe LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mappingunit/step that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43,56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30,3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26,62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154,103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87,11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102,152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116,15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28,158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166,162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118,17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125

2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583

899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602

21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616

20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631

9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632

494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625

192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632

11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602

6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623

21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611

335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636

2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617

12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137

710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619

200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526

3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636

3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598

105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587

787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537

15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568

36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585

1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8437

629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612

11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565

2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614

5600 6591 7491 7696

1766 8281 8626

1725 2280 5120

1650 3445 7652

4312 6911 8626

15 1013 5892

2263 2546 2979

1545 5873 7406

67 726 3697

2860 6443 8542

17 911 2820

1561 4580 6052

79 5269 7134

22 2410 2424

3501 5642 8627

808 6950 8571

4099 6389 7482

4023 5000 7833

5476 5765 7917

1008 3194 7207

20 495 5411

1703 8388 8635

6 4395 4921

200 2053 8206

1089 5126 5562

10 4193 7720

1967 2151 4608

22 738 3513

3385 5066 8152

440 1118 8537

3429 6058 7716

5213 7519 8382

5564 8365 8620

43 3219 8603

4 5409 5815

5 6376 7654

4091 5724 5953

5348 6754 8613

1634 6398 6632

72 2058 8605

3497 5811 7579

3846 6743 8559

15 5933 8629

2133 5859 7068

4151 4617 8566

2960 8270 8410

2059 3617 8210

544 1441 6895

4043 7482 8592

294 2180 8524

3058 8227 8373

364 5756 8617

5383 8555 8619

1704 2480 4181

7338 7929 7990

2615 3905 7981

4298 4548 8296

8262 8319 8630

892 1893 8028

5694 7237 8595

1487 5012 5810

4335 8593 8624

3509 4531 5273

10 22 830

4161 5208 6280

275 7063 8634

4 2725 3113

2279 7403 8174

1637 3328 3930

2810 4939 5624

3 1234 7687

2799 7740 8616

22 7701 8636

4302 7857 7993

7477 7794 8592

9 6111 8591

5 8606 8628

347 3497 4033

1747 2613 8636

1827 5600 7042

580 1822 6842

232 7134 7783

4629 5000 7231

951 2806 4947

571 3474 8577

2437 2496 7945

23 5873 8162

12 1168 7686

8315 8540 8596

1766 2506 4733

929 1516 3338

21 1216 6555

782 1452 8617

8 6083 6087

667 3240 4583

4030 4661 5790

559 7122 8553

3202 4388 4909

2533 3673 8594

1991 3954 6206

6835 7900 7980

189 5722 8573

2680 4928 4998

243 2579 7735

4281 8132 8566

7656 7671 8609

1116 2291 4166

21 388 8021

6 1123 8369

311 4918 8511

0 3248 6290

13 6762 7172

4209 5632 7563

49 127 8074

581 1735 4075

0 2235 5470

2178 5820 6179

16 3575 6054

1095 4564 6458

9 1581 5953

2537 6469 8552

14 3874 4844

0 3269 3551

2114 7372 7926

1875 2388 4057

3232 4042 6663

9 401 583

13 4100 6584

2299 4190 4410

21 3670 4979.

In the fifth data processing device/method as described above, LDPCcoding is performed on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15,group-wise interleave interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groupsof 360 bits is performed, and the LDPC code is mapped into one of 1024signal points determined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10bits. In the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group froma head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bitgroups

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43,56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30,3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26,62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154,103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87,11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102,152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116,15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28,158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166,162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118,17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175.

The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125

2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583

899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602

21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616

20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631

9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632

494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625

192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632

11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602

6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623

21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611

335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636

2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617

12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137

710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619

200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526

3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636

3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598

105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587

787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537

15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568

36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585

1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8437

629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612

11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565

2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614

5600 6591 7491 7696

1766 8281 8626

1725 2280 5120

1650 3445 7652

4312 6911 8626

15 1013 5892

2263 2546 2979

1545 5873 7406

67 726 3697

2860 6443 8542

17 911 2820

1561 4580 6052

79 5269 7134

22 2410 2424

3501 5642 8627

808 6950 8571

4099 6389 7482

4023 5000 7833

5476 5765 7917

1008 3194 7207

20 495 5411

1703 8388 8635

6 4395 4921

200 2053 8206

1089 5126 5562

10 4193 7720

1967 2151 4608

22 738 3513

3385 5066 8152

440 1118 8537

3429 6058 7716

5213 7519 8382

5564 8365 8620

43 3219 8603

4 5409 5815

5 6376 7654

4091 5724 5953

5348 6754 8613

1634 6398 6632

72 2058 8605

3497 5811 7579

3846 6743 8559

15 5933 8629

2133 5859 7068

4151 4617 8566

2960 8270 8410

2059 3617 8210

544 1441 6895

4043 7482 8592

294 2180 8524

3058 8227 8373

364 5756 8617

5383 8555 8619

1704 2480 4181

7338 7929 7990

2615 3905 7981

4298 4548 8296

8262 8319 8630

892 1893 8028

5694 7237 8595

1487 5012 5810

4335 8593 8624

3509 4531 5273

10 22 830

4161 5208 6280

275 7063 8634

4 2725 3113

2279 7403 8174

1637 3328 3930

2810 4939 5624

3 1234 7687

2799 7740 8616

22 7701 8636

4302 7857 7993

7477 7794 8592

9 6111 8591

5 8606 8628

347 3497 4033

1747 2613 8636

1827 5600 7042

580 1822 6842

232 7134 7783

4629 5000 7231

951 2806 4947

571 3474 8577

2437 2496 7945

23 5873 8162

12 1168 7686

8315 8540 8596

1766 2506 4733

929 1516 3338

21 1216 6555

782 1452 8617

8 6083 6087

667 3240 4583

4030 4661 5790

559 7122 8553

3202 4388 4909

2533 3673 8594

1991 3954 6206

6835 7900 7980

189 5722 8573

2680 4928 4998

243 2579 7735

4281 8132 8566

7656 7671 8609

1116 2291 4166

21 388 8021

6 1123 8369

311 4918 8511

0 3248 6290

13 6762 7172

4209 5632 7563

49 127 8074

581 1735 4075

0 2235 5470

2178 5820 6179

16 3575 6054

1095 4564 6458

9 1581 5953

2537 6469 8552

14 3874 4844

0 3269 3551

2114 7372 7926

1875 2388 4057

3232 4042 6663

9 401 583

13 4100 6584

2299 4190 4410

21 3670 4979.

According to the present technology, there is provided a sixth dataprocessing device/method including a group-wise deinterleaving unit/stepthat returns a sequence of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleavethat is acquired from data transmitted from a transmitting device to anoriginal state. The transmitting device includes: a coding unit thatperforms LDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15;a group-wise interleaving unit that performs group-wise interleaveinterleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and amapping unit that maps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal pointsdetermined according to a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits,wherein, in the group-wise interleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit groupfrom a head of the LDPC code as a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequenceof bit groups

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43,56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30,3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26,62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154,103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87,11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102,152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116,15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28,158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166,162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118,17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125

2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583

899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602

21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616

20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631

9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632

494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625

192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632

11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602

6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623

21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611

335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636

2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617

12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137

710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619

200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526

3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636

3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598

105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587

787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537

15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568

36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585

1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8467

629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612

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67 726 3697

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79 5269 7134

22 2410 2424

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1008 3194 7207

20 495 5411

1703 8388 8635

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22 738 3513

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5564 8365 8620

43 3219 8603

4 5409 5815

5 6376 7654

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3497 5811 7579

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15 5933 8629

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294 2180 8524

3058 8227 8373

364 5756 8617

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9 6111 8591

5 8606 8628

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580 1822 6842

232 7134 7783

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951 2806 4947

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23 5873 8162

12 1168 7686

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929 1516 3338

21 1216 6555

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8 6083 6087

667 3240 4583

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559 7122 8553

3202 4388 4909

2533 3673 8594

1991 3954 6206

6835 7900 7980

189 5722 8573

2680 4928 4998

243 2579 7735

4281 8132 8566

7656 7671 8609

1116 2291 4166

21 388 8021

6 1123 8369

311 4918 8511

0 3248 6290

13 6762 7172

4209 5632 7563

49 127 8074

581 1735 4075

0 2235 5470

2178 5820 6179

16 3575 6054

1095 4564 6458

9 1581 5953

2537 6469 8552

14 3874 4844

0 3269 3551

2114 7372 7926

1875 2388 4057

3232 4042 6663

9 401 583

13 4100 6584

2299 4190 4410

21 3670 4979.

In the sixth data processing device/method as above, a sequence of theLDPC code after the group-wise interleave that is acquired from datatransmitted from a transmitting device is returned to an original state,wherein the transmitting device includes: a coding unit that performsLDPC coding on the basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code havinga code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15; a group-wiseinterleaving unit that performs group-wise interleave interleaving theLDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit thatmaps the LDPC code into one of 1024 signal points determined accordingto a modulation scheme in units of 10 bits, wherein, in the group-wiseinterleave, by using an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeas a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43,56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30,3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26,62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154,103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87,11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102,152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116,15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28,158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166,162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118,17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175,

the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the paritycheck matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to theinformation bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the paritybits, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity checkmatrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial valuetable is a table representing a position of an element “1” in theinformation matrix portion for every 360 columns and is

142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125

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787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537

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36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585

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629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612

11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565

2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614

5600 6591 7491 7696

1766 8281 8626

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67 726 3697

2860 6443 8542

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79 5269 7134

22 2410 2424

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808 6950 8571

4099 6389 7482

4023 5000 7833

5476 5765 7917

1008 3194 7207

20 495 5411

1703 8388 8635

6 4395 4921

200 2053 8206

1089 5126 5562

10 4193 7720

1967 2151 4608

22 738 3513

3385 5066 8152

440 1118 8537

3429 6058 7716

5213 7519 8382

5564 8365 8620

43 3219 8603

4 5409 5815

5 6376 7654

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5348 6754 8613

1634 6398 6632

72 2058 8605

3497 5811 7579

3846 6743 8559

15 5933 8629

2133 5859 7068

4151 4617 8566

2960 8270 8410

2059 3617 8210

544 1441 6895

4043 7482 8592

294 2180 8524

3058 8227 8373

364 5756 8617

5383 8555 8619

1704 2480 4181

7338 7929 7990

2615 3905 7981

4298 4548 8296

8262 8319 8630

892 1893 8028

5694 7237 8595

1487 5012 5810

4335 8593 8624

3509 4531 5273

10 22 830

4161 5208 6280

275 7063 8634

4 2725 3113

2279 7403 8174

1637 3328 3930

2810 4939 5624

3 1234 7687

2799 7740 8616

22 7701 8636

4302 7857 7993

7477 7794 8592

9 6111 8591

5 8606 8628

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1747 2613 8636

1827 5600 7042

580 1822 6842

232 7134 7783

4629 5000 7231

951 2806 4947

571 3474 8577

2437 2496 7945

23 5873 8162

12 1168 7686

8315 8540 8596

1766 2506 4733

929 1516 3338

21 1216 6555

782 1452 8617

8 6083 6087

667 3240 4583

4030 4661 5790

559 7122 8553

3202 4388 4909

2533 3673 8594

1991 3954 6206

6835 7900 7980

189 5722 8573

2680 4928 4998

243 2579 7735

4281 8132 8566

7656 7671 8609

1116 2291 4166

21 388 8021

6 1123 8369

311 4918 8511

0 3248 6290

13 6762 7172

4209 5632 7563

49 127 8074

581 1735 4075

0 2235 5470

2178 5820 6179

16 3575 6054

1095 4564 6458

9 1581 5953

2537 6469 8552

14 3874 4844

0 3269 3551

2114 7372 7926

1875 2388 4057

3232 4042 6663

9 401 583

13 4100 6584

2299 4190 4410

21 3670 4979.

Here, the data processing device may be an independent device or aninternal block configuring one device.

Effects of the Invention

According to the present technology, in data transmission using the LDPCcode, excellent communication quality can be secured.

Note that the effects described here are not necessarily limited, butanyone effect described in the present disclosure may be acquired.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart that illustrates a decoding sequence of an LDPCcode.

FIG. 3 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity check matrixof an LDPC code.

FIG. 4 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a Tanner graph of aparity check matrix.

FIG. 5 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a variable node.

FIG. 6 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a check node.

FIG. 7 is a diagram that illustrates a configuration example of atransmission system according to an embodiment of the presenttechnology.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example of atransmitting device 11.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example of abit interleaver 116.

FIG. 10 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix.

FIG. 11 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity matrix.

FIG. 12 is a diagram that illustrates the parity check matrix of theLDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2.

FIG. 13 is a diagram that illustrates the parity check matrix of theLDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2.

FIG. 14 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a Tanner graph fordecoding an LDPC code.

FIG. 15 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity matrixH_(T) having a staircase structure and a Tanner graph corresponding tothe parity matrix H_(T).

FIG. 16 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity matrixH_(T) of a parity check matrix H corresponding to an LDPC code afterparity interleave.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart that illustrates an example of a processperformed by a bit interleaver 116 and a mapper 117.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofan LDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart that illustrates an example of the process of theLDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 20 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table in which a coding rate is 1/4 and a codelength is 16200.

FIG. 21 is a diagram that illustrates a method of calculating a paritycheck matrix H by using a parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 22 is a diagram that illustrates a structure of a parity checkmatrix.

FIG. 23 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 24 is a diagram that illustrates an A matrix generated from aparity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 25 is a diagram that illustrates parity interleave of a B matrix.

FIG. 26 is a diagram that illustrates a C matrix generated from a paritycheck matrix initial value table.

FIG. 27 is a diagram that illustrates parity interleave of a D matrix.

FIG. 28 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix acquired byperforming a column permutation as parity deinterleave for restoringparity interleave to an original state for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 29 is a diagram that illustrates a transformed parity check matrixacquired by performing a row permutation for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 30 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 31 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 32 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 33 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 34 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 35 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 36 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 37 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 38 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 39 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 40 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 41 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 42 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 43 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 44 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 45 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 46 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 47 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 48 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 49 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 50 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 51 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 52 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 53 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 54 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 55 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 56 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 57 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 58 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 59 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 60 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 61 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 62 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 63 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 64 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 65 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 66 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 67 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 68 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 69 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 70 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 71 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 72 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table.

FIG. 73 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a Tanner graph of anensemble of a degree sequence in which a column weight is 3, and a rowweight is 6.

FIG. 74 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a Tanner graph of anensemble of a multi-edge type.

FIG. 75 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 76 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 77 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 78 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 79 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 80 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 81 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 82 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix.

FIG. 83 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation in acase where a modulation scheme is 16 QAM.

FIG. 84 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation in acase where a modulation scheme is 64 QAM.

FIG. 85 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation in acase where a modulation scheme is 256 QAM.

FIG. 86 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation in acase where a modulation scheme is 1024 QAM.

FIG. 87 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a UC in a case where a modulation scheme is QPSK.

FIG. 88 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a 2D NUC in a case where a modulation scheme is 16 QAM.

FIG. 89 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a 2D NUC in a case where a modulation scheme is 64 QAM.

FIG. 90 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a 2D NUC in a case where a modulation scheme is 256 QAM.

FIG. 91 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a 2D NUC in a case where a modulation scheme is 256 QAM.

FIG. 92 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of a 1D NUC in a case where a modulation scheme is 1024QAM.

FIG. 93 is a diagram that illustrates relations between a symbol y and areal part Re (z_(q)) and an imaginary part Im (z_(q)) of a complexnumber as coordinates of a signal point z_(q) of a 1D NUC correspondingto the symbol y.

FIG. 94 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example of ablock interleaver 25.

FIG. 95 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the number C ofcolumns of parts 1 and 2 and part column lengths R1 and R2 for eachcombination of a code length N and a modulation scheme.

FIG. 96 is a diagram that illustrates block interleave performed by ablock interleaver 25.

FIG. 97 is a diagram that illustrates group-wise interleave performed bya group-wise interleaver 24.

FIG. 98 is a diagram that illustrates a first example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 99 is a diagram that illustrates a second example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 100 is a diagram that illustrates a third example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 101 is a diagram that illustrates a fourth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 102 is a diagram that illustrates a fifth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 103 is a diagram that illustrates a sixth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 104 is a diagram that illustrates a seventh example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 105 is a diagram that illustrates an eighth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 106 is a diagram that illustrates a ninth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 107 is a diagram that illustrates a tenth example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 108 is a diagram that illustrates an 11th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 109 is a diagram that illustrates a 12th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 110 is a diagram that illustrates a 13th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 111 is a diagram that illustrates a 14th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 112 is a diagram that illustrates a 15th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 113 is a diagram that illustrates a 16th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 114 is a diagram that illustrates a 17th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 115 is a diagram that illustrates an 18th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 116 is a diagram that illustrates a 19th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 117 is a diagram that illustrates a 20th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 118 is a diagram that illustrates a 21st example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 119 is a diagram that illustrates a 22nd example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 120 is a diagram that illustrates a 23rd example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 121 is a diagram that illustrates a 24th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 122 is a diagram that illustrates a 25th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 123 is a diagram that illustrates a 26th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 124 is a diagram that illustrates a 27th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 125 is a diagram that illustrates a 28th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 126 is a diagram that illustrates a 29th example of a GW patternfor an LDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

FIG. 127 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 128 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 129 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 130 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 131 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 132 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 133 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 134 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 135 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 136 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 137 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 138 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 139 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 140 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 141 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 142 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 143 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 144 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 145 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 146 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 147 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 148 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 149 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 150 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 151 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 152 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 153 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 154 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 155 is a diagram that illustrates a simulation result of asimulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 156 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofa receiving device 12.

FIG. 157 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofa bit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 158 is a flowchart that illustrates an example of a processperformed by a demapper 164, a bit deinterleaver 165, and an LDPCdecoder 166.

FIG. 159 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix of an LDPC code.

FIG. 160 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a matrix (atransformed parity check matrix) acquired by performing a rowpermutation and a column permutation for a parity check matrix.

FIG. 161 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a transformedparity check matrix divided in units of 5×5.

FIG. 162 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofa decoding device collectively performing P node operations.

FIG. 163 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofan LDPC decoder 166.

FIG. 164 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofa block deinterleaver 54.

FIG. 165 is a block diagram that illustrates another configurationexample of a bit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 166 is a block diagram that illustrates a first configurationexample of a reception system to which the receiving device 12 can beapplied.

FIG. 167 is a block diagram that illustrates a second configurationexample of a reception system to which the receiving device 12 can beapplied.

FIG. 168 is a block diagram that illustrates a third configurationexample of a reception system to which the receiving device 12 can beapplied.

FIG. 169 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example acomputer according to an embodiment of the present technology.

MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present technology will bedescribed. Before the description thereof, an LDPC code will bedescribed.

<LDPC Code>

Note that the LDPC code is a linear code and, here, will be described tohave two dimensions here, although the two dimensions are not necessary.

A major characteristic of the LDPC code is that a parity check matrixdefining the LDPC code is sparse. Here, a sparse matrix is a matrix inwhich the number of “1”s as elements of the matrix is very small (amatrix of which most elements are 0's).

FIG. 1 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode.

In the parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 1, a weight (columnweight) (the number of “1”s) of each column is “3” and a weight of eachrow (row weight) is “6”.

In coding using the LDPC code (LDPC coding), for example, a generationmatrix G is generated on the basis of the parity check matrix H, and acode word (LDPC code) is generated by multiplexing information bits oftwo dimensions by the generation matrix G.

More specifically, a coding device that performs the LDPC coding, first,calculates the generation matrix G satisfying GH^(T)=0 for a transposedmatrix H^(T) of the parity check matrix H. Here, in a case where thegeneration matrix G is a K×N matrix, the coding device generates a codeword c (=uG) configured by N bits by multiplying the generation matrix Gby a bit string (vector u) of information bits configured by K bits. Thecode word (LDPC code) that is generated by the coding device is receivedat a reception side through a predetermined communication line.

The LDPC code can be decoded by using a message passing algorithm, whichis an algorithm proposed by Gallager by calling it as probabilisticdecoding, using belief propagation on a so-called a Tanner graph formedby a variable node (also referred to as a message node) and a checknode. Hereinafter, the variable node and the check node will be simplyreferred to as nodes as is appropriate.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart that illustrates a decoding sequence of an LDPCcode.

Note that, hereinafter, a real value (a received LLR) that is acquiredby representing the likelihood of “0” of a value of an i-th code bit ofthe LDPC code (one code word) received by the reception side by using alog likelihood ratio will be appropriately referred to as a receptionvalue u_(0i). In addition, a message output from the check node will bereferred to as u_(j), and a message output from the variable node willbe referred to as v_(i).

First, in decoding the LDPC code, as illustrated in FIG. 2, in step S11,the LDPC code is received, the message (check node message) u_(j) isinitialized to “0”, and a variable k taking an integer as a counter ofrepetition processes is initialized to “0”, and the process proceeds tostep S12. In step S12, the message (variable node message) v_(i) isacquired by performing an operation (variable node operation)represented by Equation (1) on the basis of the reception value u_(0i)acquired by receiving the LDPC code, and the message u_(j) is acquiredby performing an operation (check node operation) represented byEquation (2) on the basis of the message v_(i).

$\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {{Mathematical}\mspace{14mu} {Formula}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack & \; \\{v_{i} = {u_{0i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v} - 1}\; u_{j}}}} & (1) \\\left\lbrack {{Mathematical}\mspace{14mu} {Formula}\mspace{14mu} 2} \right\rbrack & \; \\{{\tanh \left( \frac{u_{j}}{2} \right)} = {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$

Here, d_(v) and d_(c) represented in Equations (1) and (2) respectivelyare parameters, which can be arbitrarily selected, representing thenumber of “1”s in the vertical direction (column) and the horizontaldirection (row) of the parity check matrix H. For example, in case of anLDPC code ((3, 6) LDPC code) for the parity check matrix H having acolumn weight of 3 and a row weight of 6 as illustrated in FIG. 1,d_(v)=3 and d_(c)=6.

Note that, in the variable node operation represented in Equation (1)and the check node operation represented in Equation (2), since amessage input from a branch (edge) (a line joining the variable node andthe check node) from which a message is output is not a target for theoperation, the range of the operation is 1 to d_(v)−1 or 1 to d_(c)−1.Actually, the check node operation represented by Equation (2) isperformed by generating a table of a function R (v₁, v₂) represented byEquation (3) defined by one output for two inputs v₁ and v₂ in advanceand continuously (recursively) using the table as represented byEquation (4).

[Mathematical Formula 3]

x=2 tan h ⁻¹{tan h(v ₁/2)tan h(v ₂/2)}=R(v ₁ ,v ₂)  (3)

[Mathematical Formula 4]

u _(j) =R(v ₁ ,R(v ₂ ,R(v ₃ , . . . R(v _(d) _(c) ₋₂ ,v _(d) _(c)₋₁))))  (4)

In step S12, additionally, the variable k is incremented by “1”, and theprocess proceeds to step S13. In step S13, it is determined whether ornot the variable k is larger than a predetermined repetition number C oftimes of decoding. In step S13, in a case where the variable k isdetermined not to be larger than the predetermined repetition number Cof times, the process is returned to step S12, and thereafter, a similarprocess is repeated.

On the other hand, in a case where the variable k is determined to belarger than the predetermined repetition number C of times in step S13,the process proceeds to step S14, and, by performing an operationrepresented in Equation (5), a message v_(i) that is a final decodingresult to be output is acquired and output, and the process of decodingthe LDPC code ends.

[Mathematical  Formula  5] $\begin{matrix}{v_{i} = {u_{0i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v}}\; u_{j}}}} & (5)\end{matrix}$

Here, the operation represented in Equation (5), differently from thevariable node operation represented in Equation (1), is performed usingmessages u_(j) from all the branches connected to the variable node.

FIG. 3 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity check matrixH of a (3, 6) LDPC code (a coding rate of 1/2 and a code length of 12).

In the parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 3, similarly to thatillustrated in FIG. 1, a column weight is configured to be 3, and a rowweight is configured to be 6.

FIG. 4 is a diagram that illustrates a Tanner graph of the parity checkmatrix H illustrated in FIG. 3.

Here, in FIG. 4, each check node is denoted by a plus sign “+”, and eachvariable node is denoted by an equal sign “=”. Here, check nodes andvariable nodes respectively correspond to rows and columns of the paritycheck matrix H. A connected line between a check node and a variablenode represents a branch (edge) and corresponds to “1” as an element ofthe parity check matrix.

In other words, in a case where an element of the j-th row and the i-thcolumn of the parity check matrix is “1”, in FIG. 4, an i-th variablenode (a node of “=”) from the top and a j-th check node (a node of “+”)from the top are connected together using a branch. The branchrepresents that a code bit corresponding to the variable node has aconstraint condition corresponding to the check node.

In a sum product algorithm that is a method of decoding the LDPC code, avariable node operation and a check node operation are repeatedlyperformed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram that illustrates a variable node operation performedat a variable node.

At the variable node, a message v_(i) corresponding to a branch to becalculated is acquired using the variable node operation represented inEquation (1) using messages u₁ and u₂ from the remaining branchesconnected to the variable node and a reception value u_(0i). Messagescorresponding to other branches are similarly acquired.

FIG. 6 is a diagram that illustrates a check node operation performed ata check node.

Here, the check node operation represented in Equation (2) can berewritten into Equation (6) by using a relation of“a×b=exp{ln(|a|)+ln(|b|)}×sign(a)×sign(b)”. Here, sign(x) is 1 at thetime of x≥0 and is −1 at the time of x<0.

[Mathematical  Formula  6] $\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{u_{j} =} & {{2{\tanh^{- 1}\left( {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}}} \\{=} & {{2{\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\ln \left( {{\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}} \right\} \times} \right.}}} \\ & \left. {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}} \right\rbrack \\{=} & {{2{\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {- \left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {- {\ln \left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right)} \right\}} \right\rbrack} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}}\end{matrix} & (6)\end{matrix}$

In case of x≥0, when a function (x) is defined using an equationϕ(x)=ln(tan h(x/2)), an equation ϕ⁻¹(x)=2 tan h⁻¹(e^(−x)) is satisfied,and accordingly, Equation (6) can be transformed into Equation (7).

[Mathematical  Formula  7] $\begin{matrix}{u_{j} = {{\varphi^{- 1}\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\varphi \left( {v_{i}} \right)}} \right)} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

At a check node, the check node operation represented in Equation (2) isperformed according to Equation (7).

In other words, at a check node, as illustrated in FIG. 6, a messageu_(j) corresponding to a branch to be calculated is acquired byperforming the check node operation represented in Equation (7) usingmessages v₁, v₂, v₃, v₄, and v₅ from the remaining branches connected tothe check node. Messages corresponding to the other branches aresimilarly acquired.

Note that the function ϕ(x) represented in Equation (7) can berepresented using an equation ϕ(x)=ln((e^(x)+1)/(e^(x)−1)). Thus, incase of x>0, ϕ(x)=ϕ⁻¹ (x). In order to mount the functions ϕ(x) andϕ⁻¹(x) to hardware, there are cases where the functions are mountedusing a look up table (LUT). In such cases, both the functions use asame LUT.

<Configuration Example of Transmission System According to PresentTechnology>

FIG. 7 is a diagram that illustrates a configuration example of atransmission system (here, a system represents logical aggregation of aplurality of devices regardless of whether or not the devices ofconfigurations are arranged inside a same casing) according to anembodiment of the present technology.

As illustrated in FIG. 7, the transmission system is configured by atransmitting device 11 and a receiving device 12.

The transmitting device 11, for example, transmits (broadcasts) (sends)a program of television broadcasting or the like. In other words, thetransmitting device 11, for example, codes target data that is atransmission target such as image data, audio data, and the like as aprogram into an LDPC code and transmits the LDPC code through acommunication line 13 such as a satellite link, a terrestrial wave, or acable (wire circuit).

The receiving device 12 receives the LDPC code transmitted from thetransmitting device 11 through the communication line 13, decodes thereceived LDPC code into target data, and outputs the target data.

Here, it is known that the LDPC code used by the transmission systemillustrated in FIG. 7 shows a very high capability in an additive whiteGaussian noise (AWGN) communication line.

Meanwhile, there are cases where a burst error or an erasure occurs inthe communication line 13. For example, particularly, in a case wherethe communication line 13 is a terrestrial wave, in an orthogonalfrequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, in a multi-pathenvironment in which a desired to undesired ratio (D/U) is 0 dB (thepower of undesired=echo is the same as the power of desired=main path),the power of a specific symbol becomes zero in accordance with a delayof the echo (a path other than the main path) (erasure).

In addition, also in a flutter (a communication line, to which an echoof a Doppler frequency is added, having a delay of zero), in a casewhere the D/U is 0 dB, there are cases where the power of all thesymbols of the OFDM at specific time becomes zero in accordance with aDoppler frequency (erasure).

In addition, there are cases where a burst error occurs according to thestatus of a wiring from a receiving unit (not illustrated in thedrawing) such as an antenna receiving a signal from the transmittingdevice 11 to the receiving device 12 on the receiving device 12 side orthe instability of the power supply of the receiving device 12.

Meanwhile, in decoding the LDPC code, at a variable node correspondingto a column of the parity check matrix H or furthermore, a code bit ofthe LDPC code, as illustrated in FIG. 5, since the variable nodeoperation represented in Equation (1) accompanying the addition of codebits (the reception value u_(0i) thereof) of the LDPC code is performed,in a case where an error occurs in the code bits used for the variablenode operation, the accuracy of an acquired message is decreased.

Then, in decoding the LDPC code, at a check node, since the check nodeoperation represented in Equation (7) is performed using messagesacquired at variable nodes connected to the check node, in a case wherethe number of check nodes for which errors (including erasures)simultaneously occur in a plurality of variable nodes (code bits of theLDPC code corresponding thereto) connected to each of the check nodesincreases, the decoding performance is degraded.

In other words, for example, a check node, in a case where erasuressimultaneously occur in two or more variable nodes connected to thecheck node, returns a message in which a probability of the value being“0” and a probability of the value being “1” are equal to all thevariable nodes. In this case, the check node returning the message ofthe equal probability does not contribute to one decoding process (oneset of the variable node operation and the check node operation) As aresult, a large number of times of repetition of the decoding processare necessary, the decoding performance is degraded, and the powerconsumption of the receiving device 12 decoding the LDPC code isincreased.

Thus, the transmission system illustrated in FIG. 7 can improve theresistance to a burst error or an erasure while maintaining theperformance in the AWGN communication line (AWGN channel).

<Configuration Example of Transmitting Device 11>

FIG. 8 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe transmitting device 11 illustrated in FIG. 7.

In the transmitting device 11, one or more input streams are supplied toa mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 as target data.

The mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 performs mode selection and aprocess of multiplexing one or more input streams supplied thereto orthe like as is necessary and supplies data acquired as a result thereofto a padder 112.

The padder 112 performs necessary zero filling (insertion of Null) forthe data supplied from the mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 and suppliesdata acquired as a result thereof to a BB scrambler 113.

The BB scrambler 113 performs base-band scrambling (BB scrambling) forthe data supplied from the padder 112 and supplies data acquired as aresult thereof to a BCH encoder 114.

The BCH encoder 114 performs BCH coding of the data supplied from the BBscrambler 113 and supplies data acquired as a result thereof to an LDPCencoder 115 as LDPC target data that is a target for LDPC coding.

The LDPC encoder 115 performs LDPC coding according to a parity checkmatrix of which a parity matrix, which is a part corresponding to aparity bit of the LDPC code, has a dual diagonal structure or the likefor the LDPC target data supplied from the BCH encoder 114 and outputsan LDPC code having the LDPC target data as information bits.

In other words, the LDPC encoder 115 performs LDPC coding, for example,for coding the LDPC target data into an LDPC code defined in apredetermined standard such as DVB-S.2, the DVB-T.2, the DVB-C.2, or thelike, an LDPC code to be employed (corresponding to the check paritymatrix) in ATSC 3.0, or the like and outputs the LDPC code acquired as aresult thereof.

Here, the LDPC code defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 and the LDPCcode to be employed in ATSC 3.0 are irregular repeat accumulate (IRA)codes, and a parity matrix of the parity check matrix of the LDPC codehas a staircase structure. The parity matrix and the staircase structurewill be described later. The IRA code, for example, is described in“Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes”, H. Jin, A. Khandekar, and R. J.McEliece, in Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Turbo codesand Related Topics, pp. 1-8, September 2000.

The LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 is supplied to a bitinterleaver 116.

The bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleave to be described laterfor the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 and supplies theLDPC code after the bit interleave to a mapper 117.

The mapper 117 performs quadrature modulation (multi-value modulation)by mapping an LDPC code supplied from the bit interleaver 116 into asignal point representing one symbol of the quadrature modulation inunits (symbol units) of code bits of one or more bits of the LDPC code.

In other words, the mapper 117 maps the LDPC code supplied from the bitinterleaver 116 into a signal point, which is set in the modulationscheme performing quadrature modulation of the LDPC code, on an IQ plane(IQ constellation) defined by an I axis representing an I componenthaving the same phase as the carrier wave and a Q axis representing a Qcomponent orthogonal to the carrier wave and performs quadraturemodulation.

In a case where the number of signal points set in the modulation schemeof the quadrature modulation performed by the mapper 117 is 2^(m), byusing code bits of m bits of the LDPC code as a symbol (one symbol), inthe mapper 117, the LDPC code supplied from the bit interleaver 116 ismapped into a signal point representing a symbol in units of symbolsamong the 2^(m) signal points.

Here, examples of the modulation scheme of the quadrature modulationperformed by the mapper 117 include a modulation scheme defined in astandard such as DVB-T.2, a modulation scheme to be employed in ATSC3.0, and other modulation schemes, in other words, includes Binary PhaseShift Keying (BPSK), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), 8 Phase-ShiftKeying (PSK), 16 Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying (APSK), 32 APSK, 16Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, 1024QAM, 4096QAM, and 4 Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM). A modulationscheme by which the quadrature modulation is performed in the mapper 117is set in advance, for example, according to an operation performed byan operator of the transmitting device 11.

The data (a mapping result acquired by mapping a symbol into a signalpoint) acquired by the process performed by the mapper 117 is suppliedto a time interleaver 118.

The time interleaver 118 performs time interleave (interleave in thetime direction) in units of symbols for the data supplied from themapper 117 and supplies data acquired as a result thereof to a singleinput single output/multiple input single output encoder (SISO/MISOencoder) 119.

The SISO/MISO encoder 119 performs space-time coding for the datasupplied from the time interleaver 118 and supplies the coded data tothe frequency interleaver 120.

The frequency interleaver 120 performs frequency interleave (interleavein the frequency direction) in units of symbols for the data suppliedfrom the SISO/MISO encoder 119 and supplies resultant data to a framebuilder and resource allocation unit 131.

On the other hand, for example, control data (signalling) used fortransfer control such as BB signaling (Base Band Signalling) (BB Header)is supplied to the BCH encoder 121.

The BCH encoder 121, similarly to the BCH encoder 114, performs the BCHcoding for control data supplied thereto and supplies data acquired as aresult thereof to an LDPC encoder 122.

The LDPC encoder 122, similarly to the LDPC encoder 115, performs LDPCcoding of data supplied from the BCH encoder 121 as LDPC target data andsupplies an LDPC code acquired as a result thereof to a mapper 123.

The mapper 123, similarly to the mapper 117, performs quadraturemodulation by mapping an LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 122into a signal point representing one symbol of the quadrature modulationin units (symbol units) of code bits of one or more bits of the LDPCcode and supplies data acquired as a result thereof to a frequencyinterleaver 124.

The frequency interleaver 124, similarly to the frequency interleaver120, performs frequency interleave of data supplied from the mapper 123in units of symbols and supplies resultant data to a framebuilder/resource allocation unit 131.

The frame builder/resource allocation unit 131 inserts symbols of pilotsinto necessary positions of the data (symbols) supplied from thefrequency interleavers 120 and 124, configures a frame (for example, aphysical layer (PL) frame, a T2 frame, a C2 frame, or the like)configured by a predetermined number of symbols on the basis ofresultant data (symbol) thereof, and supplies the configured frame tothe OFDM generating unit (OFDM generation) 132.

The OFDM generating unit 132 generates an OFDM signal corresponding tothe frame from the frame supplied from the frame builder/resourceallocation unit 131 and transmits the OFDM signal through thecommunication line 13 (FIG. 7).

Note that the transmitting device 11, for example, may be configuredwithout arranging some of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 8 such as thetime interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequencyinterleaver 120 and, the frequency interleaver 124.

<Configuration Example of Bit Interleaver 116>

FIG. 9 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe bit interleaver 116 illustrated in FIG. 8.

The bit interleaver 116 has a function of interleaving data and includesa parity interleaver 23, a group-wise interleaver 24, and a blockinterleaver 25.

The parity interleaver 23 performs parity interleave of interleaving theparity bits of the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 intopositions of other parity bits and supplies the LDPC code after theparity interleave to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs group-wise interleave for theLDPC code supplied from the parity interleaver 23 and supplies the LDPCcode after the group-wise interleave to the block interleaver 25.

Here, in the group-wise interleave, an LDPC code supplied from theparity interleaver 23 is interleaved in units of bit groups by using 360bits of one segment as a bit group that is acquired by dividing an LDPCcode corresponding to one code from the start thereof in units of 360bits that are the same as a unit size P to be described later.

In a case where the group-wise interleave is performed, the error ratecan be improved to be better than that in a case where the group-wiseinterleave is not performed, and as a result, excellent communicationquality can be secured in data transmission.

The block interleaver 25 symbolizes an LDPC code, for example,corresponding to one code into symbols of m bits as a unit for mappingby performing block interleave for demultiplexing the LDPC code suppliedfrom the group-wise interleaver 24 and supplies the symbols to themapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Here, in the block interleave, for example, an LDPC code correspondingto one code is converted into an m-bit symbol as the LDPC code suppliedfrom the group-wise interleaver 24 is written in the column directionand is read in the row direction for a storage area in which columns asstorage areas each storing a predetermined number of bits in the column(vertical) direction of the same number as the number m of bits of thesymbol are aligned in the row (horizontal) direction.

<Parity Check Matrix H of LDPC Code>

FIG. 10 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix H used for LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 illustrated inFIG. 8.

The parity check matrix H has a Low-Density Generation Matrix (LDGM)structure and can be represented by an equation H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] (amatrix having elements of an information matrix H_(A) as its leftelements and having elements of a parity matrix H_(T) as its rightelements) using the information matrix H_(A) Of a part corresponding toinformation bits among the code bits of the LDPC code and the paritymatrix H_(T) corresponding to the parity bits thereof.

Here, among the code bits of the LDPC code (one code word) of one code,the bit number of information bits and the number bits of parity bitswill be respectively referred to as an information length K and a paritylength M, and the bit number of the code bits of one (one code word)LDPC code will be referred to as a code length N (=K+M).

The information length K and the parity length M of the LDPC code havinga certain code length N are determined by a coding rate. The paritycheck matrix H is a matrix in which rows×columns are M×N (a matrix of Mrows and N columns). The information matrix H_(A) is a matrix of M×K,and the parity matrix H_(T) is a matrix of M×M.

FIG. 11 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity matrixH_(T) of the parity check matrix H used for LDPC coding by the LDPCencoder 115 illustrated in FIG. 8.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H used by the LDPCencoder 115 for LDPC coding, for example, is similar to a parity matrixH_(T) of a parity check matrix H of an LDPC code defined in the standardof DVB-T.2 or the like.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC codethat is defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like, as illustratedin FIG. 11, is a matrix (lower bidiagonal matrix) having a staircasestructure in which elements of “1” are aligned in a staircase pattern.The row weight of the parity matrix H_(T) is 1 in a first row and is 2in all the remaining rows. In addition, the column weight is 1 for thelast one column and is 2 for all the remaining columns.

As described above, the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H of whichthe parity matrix H_(T) has the staircase structure can be easilygenerated using the parity check matrix H.

In other words, the LDPC code (one code word) will be represented by arow vector c, and a column vector acquired by transposing the row vectorwill be represented by c^(T). In addition, an information-bit part ofthe row vector c that is the LDPC code will be represented by a rowvector A, and a parity-bit part thereof will be represented by a rowvector T.

In this case, the row vector c can be represented by an equation c=[A|T](having elements of a column vector A as left elements and havingelements of a row vector T as right elements) by using the column vectorA as information bits and the row vector T as parity bits.

In the parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as the LDPC codeneed to satisfy an equation Hc^(T)=0. The row vector T as the paritybits configuring the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the equation Hc^(T)=0can be sequentially (orderly) acquired by setting elements of each rowto “0” sequentially from elements of the first row of the column vectorHc^(T) in the equation Hc^(T)=0 in a case where the parity matrix H_(T)of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] has the staircase structureillustrated in FIG. 11.

FIG. 12 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like.

For KX columns from a first column of the parity check matrix H of theLDPC code defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like, the columnweight is set to X, for the following K3 columns, the column weight isset to “3”, for the following (M−1) columns, the column weight is set to“2”, and, for the last one column, the column weight is set to “1”.

Here, KX+K3+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N.

FIG. 13 is a diagram that illustrates the numbers KX, K3, and M ofcolumns and a column weight X for each coding rate r of the LDPC codedefined in the standard of DVB-T.2.

In the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, LDPC codes, which have acode length N, of 64800 bits and 16200 bits are defined.

For the LDPC code of which the code length N is 64800 bits, 11 codingrates (nominal rates) of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6,8/9, and 9/10 are defined. In addition, for the LDPC code of which thecode length N is 16200 bits, 10 coding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5,2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined.

Here, the code length N of the 64800 bits may be also referred to as 64kbits, and the code length N of the 16200 bits may be also referred toas 16 kbits.

For the LDPC code, an error rate tends to be lower in a code bitcorresponding to a column of which a column weight of the parity checkmatrix H is larger.

In the parity check matrix H, which is illustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13,defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, a column weight of acolumn tends to increase as the column is disposed on a further headside (left side). Accordingly, for the LDPC code corresponding to theparity check matrix H, a code bit disposed on a further head side tendsto be more resistant against an error (have resistance against anerror), and, a last code bit tends to be less resistant against anerror.

<Parity Interleave>

Next, the parity interleave performed by the parity interleaver 23illustrated in FIG. 9 will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 to16.

FIG. 14 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a Tanner graph (apart thereof) of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code.

As illustrated in FIG. 14, when errors simultaneously occur such aserasures in a plurality of variable nodes such as two variable nodes(code bits corresponding thereto) connected to a check node, the checknode returns a message in which a probability of the value being “0” anda probability of the value being “1” are equal to all the variable nodesconnected to the check node. For this reason, when erasures or the likesimultaneously occur in the plurality of variable nodes connected tosame check node, the decoding performance is degraded.

Meanwhile, the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 illustrated inFIG. 8, for example, is an IRA code, similarly to the LDPC code definedin the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, and the parity matrix H_(T)of the parity check matrix H, as illustrated in FIG. 11, has a staircasestructure.

FIG. 15 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity matrixH_(T) having a staircase structure and a Tanner graph corresponding tothe parity matrix H_(T), as illustrated in FIG. 11.

A of FIG. 15 illustrates an example of a parity matrix H_(T) having astaircase structure, and B of FIG. 15 illustrates a Tanner graphcorresponding to the parity matrix H_(T) illustrated in A of FIG. 15.

In the parity matrix H_(T) having a staircase structure, elements of “1”are adjacent to each other in each row (except for the first row). Forthis reason, in the Tanner graph of the parity matrix H_(T), twoadjacent variable nodes corresponding to columns of two adjacentelements of which the values of the parity matrix H_(T) are “1”s areconnected to a same check node.

Accordingly, when errors simultaneously occur in parity bitscorresponding to the two adjacent variable nodes described above inaccordance with burst errors, erasures, or the like, a check nodeconnected to the two variable nodes (variable nodes acquiring messagesusing parity bits) corresponding to the two parity bits in which theerrors occur returns a message in which a probability of the value being“0” and a probability of the value being “1” are equal to the variablenodes connected to the check node, and accordingly, the decodingperformance is degraded. Then, when a burst length (the bit number ofparity bits in which errors continuously occur) is large, the number ofcheck nodes each returning a message of the equal probability increases,and the decoding performance is further degraded.

Accordingly, in order to prevent the degradation of the decodingperformance described above, the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9) performsparity interleave in which parity bits of the LDPC code supplied fromthe LDPC encoder 115 are interleaved to positions of the other paritybits.

FIG. 16 is a diagram that illustrates a parity matrix H_(T) of a paritycheck matrix H corresponding to an LDPC code after the parity interleaveperformed by the parity interleaver 23 illustrated in FIG. 9.

Here, the information matrix H_(A) of the parity check matrix Hcorresponding to the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115, similarlyto the information matrix of the parity check matrix H corresponding tothe LDPC code defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like, has acyclic structure.

The cyclic structure represents a structure in which a certain columncoincides with a column acquired by cyclically shifting another columnand, for example, also includes a structure in which, for every Pcolumns, the position of “1” in each column of the P columns is aposition acquired by cyclically shifting a first column of the P columnsin a column direction by a predetermined value such as a valueproportional to a value q acquired by dividing the parity length M.Hereinafter, P columns in the cyclic structure will be referred to as aunit size.

As LDPC codes defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like, asdescribed with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, there are two types of LDPCcodes of which the code lengths N are 64800 bits and 16200 bits, and,for each of those two types of LDPC codes, the unit size P is defined as360 that is one of divisors of the parity length M excluding 1 and M.

The parity length M has a value other than prime numbers that isrepresented by an equation M=q×P=q×360 using a value q differentaccording to the coding rate. Therefore, similarly to the unit size P,the value q is another one of the divisors of the parity length M otherthan 1 and M and is acquired by dividing the parity length M by the unitsize P (the product of P and q that are the divisors of the paritylength M is the parity length M).

As described above, when the information length is K, an integer equalto or greater than 0 and smaller than P is set to x, and an integerequal to or greater than 0 and smaller than q is set to y, the parityinterleaver 23 interleaves a (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit of code bits of anLDPC code configured by N bits at the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th codebit as parity interleave.

Both the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit and the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit are codebits after the (K+1)-th bit and thus are parity bits. Therefore,according to the parity interleave, the positions of the parity bits ofthe LDPC code are moved.

According to the parity interleave, variable nodes (parity bitscorresponding thereto) connected to a same check node are separated bythe unit size P, that is, 360 bits in this case. Therefore, in a casewhere the burst length is less than 360 bits, a situation in whicherrors simultaneously occur at a plurality of variable nodes connectedto the same check node can be avoided, and as a result thereof, theresistance against a burst error can be improved.

Note that the LDPC code after the parity interleave for interleaving the(K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bitcoincides with an LDPC code of a parity check matrix (hereinafter,referred to as a transformed parity check matrix) acquired by performingcolumn permutation for replacing a (K+qx+y+1)-th column of the originalparity check matrix H with a (K+Py+x+1)-th column.

In addition, in the parity matrix of the transformed parity checkmatrix, as illustrated in FIG. 16, a pseudo cyclic structure configuredin units of P columns (in the case illustrated in FIG. 16, 360 columns)appears.

Here, the pseudo cyclic structure is a structure in which a portionacquired by excluding a part has a cyclic structure.

In the transformed parity check matrix acquired by performing the columnpermutation corresponding to the parity interleave for the parity checkmatrix of the LDPC code defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like,in a part of 360 rows×360 columns (a shift matrix to be described later)disposed in an upper right corner portion of the transformed paritycheck matrix, one of the elements of “1” is lacking (instead, theelement is element of “0”). From that point, the transformed paritycheck matrix has not a (complete) cyclic structure but a so-calledpseudo cyclic structure.

The transformed parity check matrix for the parity check matrix of theLDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115, for example, similarly to thetransformed parity check matrix for the parity check matrix of the LDPCcode defined in the standard of DVB-T.2 or the like, has a pseudo cyclicstructure.

Note that the transformed parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 16 isa matrix acquired by performing permutation of rows for configuring thetransformed parity check matrix to be a constituent matrix to bedescribed later for the original parity check matrix H in addition tothe column permutation corresponding to the parity interleave.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart that illustrates a process performed by the LDPCencoder 115, the bit interleaver 116, and the mapper 117 illustrated inFIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 115 waits for the supply of the LDPC target data fromthe BCH encoder 114. Then, in step S101, the LDPC encoder 115 codes LDPCtarget data into an LDPC code and supplies the LDPC code to the bitinterleaver 116, and the process proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleave for theLDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 as a target and supplies asymbol acquired by the bit interleave to the mapper 117, and the processproceeds to step S103.

In other words, in step S102, in the bit interleaver 116 (FIG. 9), theparity interleaver 23 performs parity interleave for the LDPC codesupplied from the LDPC encoder 115 as a target and supplies the LDPCcode after the parity interleave to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs the group-wise interleave for theLDPC code supplied from the parity interleaver 23 as a target andsupplies resultant LDPC code to the block interleaver 25.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleave for the LDPC codeafter the group-wise interleave performed by the group-wise interleaver24 as a target and supplies a symbol of m bits acquired as a resultthereof to the mapper 117.

In step S103, the mapper 117 performs quadrature modulation by mappingthe symbol supplied from the block interleaver 25 to one of 2^(m) signalpoints determined in the modulation scheme of the quadrature modulationperformed by the mapper 117 and supplies data acquired as a resultthereof to the time interleaver 118.

As described above, by performing the parity interleave and thegroup-wise interleave, an error rate in a case where a plurality of codebits of the LDPC code are transmitted as one symbol can be improved.

Here, in the case illustrated in FIG. 9, for the convenience ofdescription, while the parity interleaver 23 that is a block performingthe parity interleave and the group-wise interleaver 24 that is a blockperforming the group-wise interleave are separately configured, theparity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver 24 may beintegrally configured.

In other words, both the parity interleave and the group-wise interleavecan be performed by writing and reading the code bits for the memory andcan be represented by a matrix that converts an address (write address)into which code bits are written into an address (read address) fromwhich code bits are read.

Accordingly, in a case where a matrix that is acquired by multiplying amatrix representing the parity interleave by a matrix representing thegroup-wise interleave is acquired, by converting code bits by using suchmatrixes, the parity interleave is performed, and a result of thegroup-wise interleave of the LDPC code after the parity interleave canbe acquired.

In addition to the parity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver24, the block interleaver 25 can be integrally configured.

In other words, the block interleave performed by the block interleaver25 also can be represented by using a matrix that converts a writeaddress of the memory in which the LDPC code is stored into a readaddress.

Therefore, by acquiring a matrix that is acquired by multiplying thematrix representing the parity interleave by the matrix representing thegroup-wise interleave and the matrix representing the block interleave,the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the blockinterleave can be performed together by using the matrix.

<Configuration Example of the LDPC Encoder 115>

FIG. 18 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe LDPC encoder 115 illustrated in FIG. 8.

Note that the LDPC encoder 122 illustrated in FIG. 8 is similarlyconfigured.

As described with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, in the standard of theDVB-T.2 or the like, the LDPC codes of two types of code lengths Nincluding 64800 bits and 16200 bits are defined.

For the LDPC code having the code length N of 64800 bits, 11 codingrates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 aredefined. In addition, for the LDPC code having the code length N of16200 bits, 10 coding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5,5/6, and 8/9 are defined (FIGS. 12 and 13).

For example, the LDPC encoder 115 can perform coding (error correctioncoding) using the LDPC code of each coding rate having the code length Nof 64800 bits or 16200 bits by using the parity check matrix H preparedfor each code length N and each coding rate.

The LDPC encoder 115 includes a coding processing unit 601 and a storageunit 602.

The coding processing unit 601 is configured by: a coding rate settingunit 611, an initial value table reading unit 612; a parity check matrixgenerating unit 613; an information bit reading unit 614; a codingparity calculating unit 615; and a control unit 616. The codingprocessing unit 601 performs the LDPC coding of LDPC target datasupplied to the LDPC encoder 115 and supplies an LDPC code acquired as aresult thereof to the bit interleaver 116 (FIG. 8).

In other words, the coding rate setting unit 611, for example, sets thecode length N and the coding rate of the LDPC code in accordance withoperator's operation or the like.

The initial value table reading unit 612 reads a parity check matrixinitial value table to be described later corresponding to the codelength N and the coding rate set by the coding rate setting unit 611from the storage unit 602.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 generates a parity checkmatrix H by arranging elements of 1 of an information matrix H_(A)corresponding to an information length K (=code length N−parity lengthM) according to the code length N and the coding rate set by the codingrate setting unit 611 in the column direction at the period of 360columns (unit size P) on the basis of the parity check matrix initialvalue table read by the initial value table reading unit 612 and storesthe parity check matrix H in the storage unit 602.

The information bit reading unit 614 reads (extracts) information bitscorresponding to the information length K from the LDPC target datasupplied to the LDPC encoder 115.

The coding parity calculating unit 615 reads the parity check matrix Hgenerated by the parity check matrix generating unit 613 from thestorage unit 602 and generates a code word (LDPC code) by calculatingparity bits for the information bits read by the information bit readingunit 614 by using the parity check matrix H on the basis of apredetermined equation.

The control unit 616 controls each block that configures the codingprocessing unit 601.

In the storage unit 602, a plurality of parity check matrix initialvalue tables corresponding to the plurality of coding rates, which areillustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13, for the code lengths N such as 64800bits and 16200 bits are stored. In addition, the storage unit 602temporarily stores data that is necessary for processing performed bythe coding processing unit 601.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart that illustrates an example of the processperformed by the LDPC encoder 115 illustrated in FIG. 18.

In step S201, the coding rate setting unit 611 determines (sets) thecode length N and the coding rate r for performing the LDPC coding.

In step S202, the initial value table reading unit 612 reads a paritycheck matrix initial value table, which is set in advance, correspondingto the code length N and the coding rate r determined by the coding ratesetting unit 611 from the storage unit 602.

In step S203, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 acquires(generates) the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code of the codelength N and the coding rate r determined by the coding rate settingunit 611 by using the parity check matrix initial value table read fromthe storage unit 602 by the initial value table reading unit 612 andsupplies the acquired parity check matrix H to the storage unit 602 soas to be stored therein.

In step S204, the information bit reading unit 614 reads the informationbits of the information length K (=N×r) corresponding to the code lengthN and the coding rate r determined by the coding rate setting unit 611from the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPC encoder 115, reads theparity check matrix H acquired by the parity check matrix generatingunit 613 from the storage unit 602, and supplies the information bitsand the parity check matrix to the coding parity calculating unit 615.

In step S205, the coding parity calculating unit 615 sequentiallycalculates parity bits of a code word c satisfying Equation (8) usingthe information bits and the parity check matrix H supplied from theinformation bit reading unit 614.

Hc ^(T)=0  (8)

In Equation (8), c represents a row vector as a code word (LDPC code),and c^(T) represents transposition of the row vector c.

Here, as described above, when a portion of information bits of the rowvector c as the LDPC code (one code word) is represented as a row vectorA, and a portion of parity bits thereof is represented as a row vectorT, the row vector c can be represented by Equation c=[A|T] using the rowvector A as the information bits and the row vector T as the paritybits.

The parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as an LDPC codeneed to satisfy an equation Hc^(T)=0. The row vector T as the paritybits configuring the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the equation Hc^(T)=0can be sequentially calculated by setting elements of each row to 0sequentially from elements of a first row of the column vector Hc^(T) inthe equation Hc^(T)=0 in a case where the parity matrix H_(T) of theparity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] has the staircase structureillustrated in FIG. 11.

The coding parity calculating unit 615 acquires parity bits T for theinformation bits A supplied from the information bit reading unit 614and outputs a codeword c=[A|T] represented by the information bits A andthe parity bits T as a result of the LDPC coding of the information bitsA.

Thereafter, in step S206, the control unit 616 determines whether or notthe LDPC coding ends. In a case where the LDPC coding is determined notto end in step S206, in other words, in a case where there is still LDPCtarget data for which the LDPC coding is performed, the process isreturned to step S201 (or step S204). Thereafter, the process of stepsS201 (or step S204) to S206 is repeated.

On the other hand, in step S206, in a case where the LDPC coding isdetermined to end, in other words, for example, in a case where there isno LDPC target data for which the LDPC coding is performed, the LDPCencoder 115 ends the process.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value tablecorresponding to each code length N and each coding rate r is preparedin advance, and the LDPC encoder 115 performs the LDPC coding of thepredetermined code length N and the predetermined coding rate r by usingthe parity check matrix H generated from the parity check matrix initialvalue table corresponding to the predetermined code length N and thepredetermined coding rate r.

<Example of the Parity Check Matrix Initial Value Table>

The parity check matrix initial value table is a table that representspositions of elements of “1” in of the information matrix H_(A) (FIG.10) of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the information lengthK according to the code length N and the coding rate r of the LDPC code(LDPC code defined according to the parity check matrix H) for every 360columns (unit size P) and is generated in advance for each parity checkmatrix H of each code length N and each coding rate r.

In other words, the parity check matrix initial value table representsat least positions of elements of “1” in the information matrix H_(A)for every 360 columns (unit size P).

In addition, as such parity check matrixes H, there are a parity checkmatrix in which the (whole) parity matrix H_(T) has a staircasestructure defined in DVB-T.2 or the like and a parity check matrix inwhich a part of the parity matrix H_(T) has a staircase structure, andthe remaining portion is a diagonal matrix (unit matrix) proposed byCRC/ETRI.

Hereinafter, a representation scheme of a parity check matrix initialvalue table representing the parity check matrix in which the paritymatrix H_(T) has the staircase structure defined in DVB-T.2 or the likewill be referred to as a DVB type, and a representation scheme of aparity check matrix initial value table representing the parity checkmatrix proposed by CRC/ETRI will be referred to as an ETRI type.

FIG. 20 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type.

In other words, FIG. 20 illustrates a parity check matrix initial valuetable for the parity check matrix H, which is defined in the standard ofthe DVB-T.2, having a code length N of 16200 bits and a coding rate (acoding rate in the notation of the DVB-T.2) r of 1/4.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) acquires theparity check matrix H as below by using the parity check matrix initialvalue table of the DVB type.

FIG. 21 is a diagram that illustrates a method of calculating a paritycheck matrix H by using a parity check matrix initial value table of theDVB type.

In other words, FIG. 21 illustrates a parity check matrix initial valuetable for the parity check matrix H, which is defined in the standard ofthe DVB-T.2, having a code length N of 16200 bits and a coding rate r of2/3.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB type is the tablethat represents the positions of elements of “1” of the wholeinformation matrix H_(A) corresponding to the information length Kaccording to the code length N and the coding rate r of the LDPC codefor every 360 columns (unit size P). In the i-th row thereof, rownumbers (row numbers when a row number of a first row of the paritycheck matrix H is set to “0”) of elements of “1” of a (1+360×(i−1))-thcolumn of the parity check matrix H are arranged corresponding to thenumber of column weights of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column.

Here, since the parity matrix H_(T) (FIG. 10) of the parity check matrixH of the DVB type that corresponds to the parity length M is set to thestaircase structure illustrated in FIG. 15, the parity check matrix Hcan be acquired in a case where the information matrix H_(A) (FIG. 10)corresponding to the information length K can be acquired using theparity check matrix initial value table.

The number k+1 of the rows of the parity check matrix initial valuetable of the DVB type is different according to the information lengthK.

A relation of Equation (9) is satisfied between the information length Kand the number k+1 of rows of the parity check matrix initial valuetable.

K=(k+1)×360  (9)

Here, 360 represented in Equation (9) is the unit size P described withreference to FIG. 16.

In the parity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 21,13 numerical values are arranged from the first row to the third row,and three numerical values are arranged from the fourth row to the(k+1)-th row (in FIG. 21, the 30th row).

Accordingly, the column weights of the parity check matrix H that areacquired from the parity check matrix initial value table illustrated inFIG. 21 are 13 from the first column to the (1+360×(3−1)−1)-th columnand are 3 from the (1+360×(3−1))-th column to the K-th column.

The first row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21represents 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369,3451, 4620, and 2622, which represents that elements of rows having rownumbers of 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369,3451, 4620, and 2622 are “1”s (and the other elements are “0”) in thefirst column of the parity check matrix H.

In addition, the second row of the parity check matrix initial valuetable illustrated in FIG. 21 represents 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407,1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and 3108, which represents thatelements of rows having row numbers of 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407,1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and 3108 are “1”s in the 361(=1+360×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value tablerepresents positions of elements of “1” in the information matrix H_(A)Of the parity check matrix H for every 360 columns.

The columns other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity checkmatrix H, in other words, the columns of the (2+360×(i−1))-th column tothe (360×i)-th column are arranged by cyclically shifting elements of“1” of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column set in the parity check matrixinitial value table periodically in a downward direction (downwarddirection of the columns) along the parity length M.

In other words, for example, the (2+360×(i−1))-th column is acquired bycyclically shifting the (1+360×(i−1))-th column in the downwarddirection by M/360 (=q), and the next (3+360×(i−1))-th column isacquired by cyclically shifting the (1+360×(i−1))-th column in thedownward direction by 2×M/360 (=2×q) (acquired by cyclically shiftingthe (2+360×(i−1))-th column in the downward direction by M/360 (=q)).

When a numerical value of a j-th column (a j-th column from the leftside) of an i-th row (an i-th row from the upper side) of the paritycheck matrix initial value table is represented as h_(i,j), and a rownumber of the j-th element of “1” of thew-th column of the parity checkmatrix H is represented as H_(w-j), the row number H_(w-j) of theelement of “1” of the w-th column that is a column other than the(1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H can be calculatedusing Equation (10).

H _(w-j)=mod{h _(i,j)+mod((w−1),P)×q,M)  (10)

Here, mod(x, y) represents a remainder that is acquired by dividing x byy.

In addition, P is the unit size described above and, in this embodimentis 360, for example, similarly to the standards of the DVB-S.2, theDVB-T.2, and the DVB-C.2. Furthermore, q is a value M/360 that isacquired by dividing the parity length M by the unit size P (=360).

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) specifies the rownumbers of elements of “1” of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the paritycheck matrix H by using the parity check matrix initial value table.

In addition, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18)calculates the row number H_(w-j) of the element of “1” of the w-thcolumn that is a column other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of theparity check matrix H by using Equation (10) and generates a paritycheck matrix H in which the element of the row number acquired as aboveis set to “1”.

FIG. 22 is a diagram that illustrates the structure of the parity checkmatrix of the ETRI type.

The parity check matrix of the ETRI type is configured by an A matrix, aB matrix, a C matrix, a D matrix, and a Z matrix.

The A matrix is an upper left matrix of the parity check matrix that hasg rows and K columns represented by a predetermined value g and theinformation length K of the LDPC code wherein K=code length N×codingrate r.

The B matrix is a matrix having the staircase structure, which isconfigured by g rows and g columns, adjacent to the right side of the Amatrix.

The C matrix is a matrix, which is configured by (N−K−g) rows and (K+g)columns, adjacent to the lower side of the A matrix and the B matrix.

The D matrix is a unit matrix, which is configured by (N−K−g) rows and(N−K−g) columns, adjacent to the right of the C matrix.

The Z matrix is a zero matrix (zero matrix), which is configured by grows and (N−K−g) columns, adjacent to the right side of the B matrix.

In the parity check matrix of the ETRI type configured by the A to Dmatrices and the Z matrix as above, the A matrix and a portion of the Cmatrix configure an information matrix, and the B matrix, the remainingportion of the C matrix, the D matrix, and the Z matrix configure aparity matrix.

Note that, since the B matrix is a matrix having the staircasestructure, and the D matrix is a unit matrix, a portion (a portion ofthe B matrix) of the parity matrix of the parity check matrix of theETRI type has a staircase structure, and the remaining portion (theportion of the D matrix) is a diagonal matrix (unit matrix).

Similarly to the information matrix of the parity check matrix of theDVB type, the A matrix and the C matrix have a cyclic structure forevery 360 columns (the unit size P), and the parity check matrix initialvalue table of the ETRI type represents positions of elements of “1” ofthe A matrix and the C matrix for every 360 columns.

Here, as described above, since the A matrix and a portion of the Cmatrix configure the information matrix, it can be determined that theparity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI type representingpositions of elements “1” of the A matrix and the C matrix for every 360columns represents at least positions of elements “1” of the informationmatrix for every 360 columns.

FIG. 23 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the ETRI type.

In other words, FIG. 23 illustrates an example of a parity check matrixinitial value table for a parity check matrix having a code length N of50 bits and a coding rate r of 1/2.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI type is a tablethat represents positions of elements “1” of the A matrix and the Cmatrix for each unit size P, and, in an i-th row, row numbers (rownumbers when a row number of a first row of the parity check matrix is0) of elements “1” of a (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrixthat correspond to the number of column weights included in the(1+P×(i−1))-th column are arranged.

Note that, here, for the simplification of description, the unit size P,for example, is assumed to be set to 5.

In addition, for the parity check matrix of the ETRI type, asparameters, there are g=M₁, M₂, Q₁, and Q₂.

g=M₁ is a parameter used for determining the size of the B matrix andhas a value that is a multiple of the unit size P. The performance ofthe LDPC code is changed by adjusting g=M₁, and g=M₁ is adjusted to apredetermined value when the parity check matrix is determined. Here,15, which is three times the unit size P=5, is assumed to be employed asg=M₁.

M₂ has a value M−M₁ acquired by subtracting M₁ from the parity length M.

Here, since the information length K is N×r=50×1/2=25, and the paritylength M is N−K=50−25=25, M₂ is M−M₁=25−15=10.

Q₁ is acquired using an equation Q₁=M₁/P and represents the number ofshifts (the number of rows) of the cyclic shift in the A matrix.

In other words, in each column other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column ofthe A matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI type, in otherwords, in each of a (2+P×(i−1))-th column to a (P×i)-th column, elements“1” of a (1+360×(i−1))-th column set in the parity check matrix initialvalue table are periodically cyclically shifted in a downward direction(a downward direction of the column) so as to be arranged, and Q₁represents the number of shifts of the cyclic shift in the A matrix.

Q₂ is acquired using an equation Q₂=M₂/P and represents the number ofshifts (the number of rows) of the cyclic shift in the C matrix.

In other words, in each column other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column ofthe C matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI type, in otherwords, in each of a (2+P×(i−1))-th column to a (P×i)-th column, elements“1” of a (1+360×(i−1))-th column set in the parity check matrix initialvalue table are periodically cyclically shifted in the downwarddirection (the downward direction of the column) so as to be arranged,and Q₂ represents the number of shifts of the cyclic shift in the Cmatrix.

Here, Q₁ is M₁/P=15/5=3, and Q₂ is M₂/P=10/5=2.

In the parity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23, 3numerical values are arranged in 1st and 2nd rows, and one numericalvalue is arranged in 3rd to 5th rows, and according to such anarrangement of the numerical values, the column weight of the paritycheck matrix acquired from the parity check matrix initial value tableillustrated in FIG. 23 is 3 in the 1st column to a (1+5×(2−1)−1)-thcolumn and is 1 in a (1+5×(2−1))-th column to a 5th column.

In other words, 2, 6, and 18 are arranged in the 1st row of the paritycheck matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23, whichrepresents that elements of rows having row numbers of 2, 6, and 18 are“1” (and the other elements are “0”) in the 1st column of the paritycheck matrix.

Here, in this case, since the A matrix is a matrix having 15 rows and 25columns (g rows and K columns), and the C matrix is a matrix having 10rows and 40 columns ((N−K−g) rows and (K+g) columns), rows having therow numbers of 0 to 14 in the parity check matrix are rows of the Amatrix, and rows having the row numbers of 15 to 24 in the parity checkmatrix are rows of the C matrix.

Thus, among the rows having the row numbers of 2, 6, and 18 (hereinafterrepresented as rows #2, #6, and #18), the rows #2 and #6 are the rows ofthe A matrix, and the row #18 is the row of the C matrix.

In the 2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value tableillustrated in FIG. 23, 2, 10, and 19 are arranged, which representsthat elements of the rows #2, #10, and #19 are “1”s in a 6(=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix.

Here, in the 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix, amongrows #2, #10, and #19, the rows #2 and #10 are the rows of the A matrix,and the row #19 is the row of the C matrix.

In the 3rd row of the parity check matrix initial value tableillustrated in FIG. 23, 22 is arranged, which represents that an elementof the row #22 is “1” in an 11 (=1+5×(3−1))-th column of the paritycheck matrix.

Here, in the 11 (=1+5×(3−1))-th column of the parity check matrix, therow #22 is the row of the C matrix.

Similarly, 19 arranged in the 4th row of the parity check matrix initialvalue table illustrated in FIG. 23 represents that an element of the row#19 is “1” in a 16 (=1+5×(4−1))-th column of the parity check matrix,and 15 arranged in the 5th row of the parity check matrix initial valuetable illustrated in FIG. 23 represents that an element of the row #15is “1” in a 21(=1+5×(5−1))-st column of the parity check matrix.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value tablerepresents the positions of elements “1” of the A matrix and the Cmatrix of the parity check matrix for each unit size P=5 columns.

In each column other than a (1+5×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix andthe C matrix of the parity check matrix, in other words, in each of a(2+5×(i−1))-th column to a (5×i)-th column, the elements “1” of the(1+5×(i−1))-th column set in the parity check matrix initial value tableare periodically cyclically shifted in the downward direction (thedownward direction of the column) so as to be arranged according to theparameters Q₁ and Q₂.

In other words, for example, in the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the Amatrix, the (1+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in the downwarddirection by Q₁ (=3), and, in the next (3+5×(i−1))-th column, the(1+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in the downward direction by2×Q₁ (=2×3) (the (2+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in thedownward direction by Q₁).

In addition, for example, in the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the C matrix,the (1+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in the downwarddirection by Q₂ (=2), and in the next (3+5×(i−1))-th column, the(1+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in the downward direction by2×Q₂ (=2×2) (the (2+5×(i−1))-th column is cyclically shifted in thedownward direction by Q₂).

FIG. 24 is a diagram that illustrates the A matrix generated from theparity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23.

In the A matrix illustrated in FIG. 24, according to the 1st row of theparity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23, elementsof rows #2 and #6 of a 1 (=1+5×(1−1))-st column are 1.

Then, in each of a 2 (=2+5×(1−1))-nd column to a 5 (=5+5×(1−1))-thcolumn, an immediately previous column is cyclically shifted in thedownward direction by Q₁=3.

In addition, in the A matrix illustrated in FIG. 24, according to the2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value table illustrated inFIG. 23, elements of rows #2 and #10 of a 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column are1.

Furthermore, in each of a 7 (=2+5×(2−1))-th column to a 10(=5+5×(2−1))-th column, an immediately previous column is cyclicallyshifted in the downward direction by Q₁=3.

FIG. 25 is a diagram that illustrates the parity interleave of the Bmatrix.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Amatrix using the parity check matrix initial value table and arrangesthe B matrix having the staircase structure neighboring to the rightside of the A matrix. Then, the parity check matrix generating unit 613regards the B matrix as the parity matrix and performs parity interleavesuch that adjacent elements “1” of the B matrix having the staircasestructure are separate from each other in the row direction by the unitsize P=5.

FIG. 25 illustrates the A matrix and the B matrix after the parityinterleave of the B matrix.

FIG. 26 is a diagram that illustrates the C matrix generated from theparity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23.

In the C matrix illustrated in FIG. 26, according to the 1st row of theparity check matrix initial value table illustrated in FIG. 23, anelement of a row #18 of a 1 (=1+5×(1−1))-st column of the parity checkmatrix is “1”.

In addition, in each of a 2 (=2+5×(1−1))-nd column to a 5(=5+5×(1×1))-th column of the C matrix, an immediately previous columnis cyclically shifted in the downward direction by Q₂=2.

Furthermore, in the C matrix illustrated in FIG. 26, according to the2nd to 5th rows of the parity check matrix initial value tableillustrated in FIG. 23, elements of a row #19 of a 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-thcolumn of the parity check matrix, a row #22 of an 11 (=1+5×(3−1))-thcolumn, a row #19 of a 16 (=1+5×(4−1))-th column, and a row #15 of a 21(=1+5×(5−1))-th column are “1”s.

In addition, in each of the 7 (=2+5×(2−1))-th column to the 10(=5+5×(2−1))-th column, each of a 12 (=2+5×(3−1))-th column to a 15(=5+5×(3−1))-th column, each of a 17 (=2+5×(4−1))-th column to a 20(=5+5×(4−1))-th column, and each of a 22 (=2+5×(5−1))-nd column to a 25(=5+5×(5−1))-th column, an immediately previous column is cyclicallyshifted in the downward direction by Q₂=2.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Cmatrix using the parity check matrix initial value table and arrangesthe C matrix below the A matrix and the B matrix (after the parityinterleave thereof).

In addition, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 arranges the Zmatrix neighboring to the right side of the B matrix and arranges the Dmatrix neighboring to the right side of the C matrix, thereby generatingthe parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 26.

FIG. 27 is a diagram that illustrates parity interleave of the D matrix.

After generating the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 26, theparity check matrix generating unit 613 regards the D matrix as theparity matrix and performs the parity interleave (of only the D matrix)such that the elements “1” of odd-numbered rows and the nexteven-numbered rows of the D matrix of the unit matrix are separate fromeach other in the row direction by the unit size P (=5).

FIG. 27 illustrates the parity check matrix after the parity interleaveof the D matrix is performed for the parity check matrix illustrated inFIG. 26.

The LDPC encoder 115 (the coding parity calculating unit 615 (FIG. 18)thereof) performs LDPC coding (generation of an LDPC code), for example,by using the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 27.

Here, the LDPC code generated using the parity check matrix illustratedin FIG. 27 is the LDPC code for which the parity interleave has beenperformed, and accordingly, it is unnecessary for the parity interleaver23 (FIG. 9) to perform the parity interleave for the LDPC code generatedusing the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 27.

FIG. 28 is a diagram that illustrates the parity check matrix acquiredby performing column permutation as parity deinterleave for restoringthe parity interleave to an original state for the B matrix, a portionof the C matrix (a portion of the C matrix arranged below the B matrix)and the D matrix of the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 27.

The LDPC encoder 115 can perform LDPC coding (generation of an LDPCcode) using the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 28.

In a case where the LDPC coding is performed using the parity checkmatrix illustrated in FIG. 28, the LDPC code for which the parityinterleave is not performed is acquired according to the LDPC coding.Thus, in a case where the LDPC coding is performed using the paritycheck matrix illustrated in FIG. 28, the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9)performs the parity interleave.

FIG. 29 is a diagram that illustrates a transformed parity check matrixacquired by performing the row permutation for the parity check matrixillustrated in FIG. 27.

As will be described later, the transformed parity check matrix is amatrix represented by a combination of a unit matrix of P×P, a quasiunit matrix acquired by setting one or more “1”s to “0” in the unitmatrix, a shift matrix acquired by cyclically shifting the unit matrixor the quasi unit matrix, a sum matrix that is a sum of two or morematrices among the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, and the shiftmatrix, and a zero matrix of P×P.

By using the transformed parity check matrix for decoding an LDPC code,an architecture, which will be described later, for performing P checknode operations and P variable node operations at the same time can beemployed in decoding the LDPC code.

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Meanwhile, the standardization of digital television broadcasting ofterrestrial waves called ATSC 3.0 is currently formulated.

Thus, a new LDPC code (hereinafter also referred to as a new LDPC code)that can be used in ATSC 3.0 and other data transmission will bedescribed.

As the new LDPC code, for example, an LDPC code of the DVB type or anLDPC code of the ETRI type having a unit size P of 360, similar toDVB-T.2 or the like, corresponding to the parity check matrix having acyclic structure may be employed.

The LDPC encoder 115 (FIGS. 8 and 18) can perform LDPC coding forgenerating a new LDPC code using a parity check matrix acquired from theparity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPC code having acode length N of 16 kbits or 64 kbits and a coding rate r of one of5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15 as below.

In this case, the storage unit 602 of the LDPC encoder 115 (FIG. 8)stores the parity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPC code.

FIG. 30 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 8/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of (16 k, 8/15)),proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 31 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code in which the code length N is 1 6 kbits, and the codingrate r is 10/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code (16 k,10/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 32 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 12/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of (16 k, 12/15)),proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIGS. 33, 34, and 35 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of (64k, 7/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

Note that FIG. 34 is a diagram following FIG. 33, and FIG. 35 is adiagram following FIG. 34.

FIGS. 36, 37, and 38 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of (64k, 9/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

Note that FIG. 37 is a diagram following FIG. 36, and FIG. 38 is adiagram following FIG. 37.

FIGS. 39, 40, 41 and 42 are diagrams that illustrate an example of aparity check matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a paritycheck matrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 11/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of(64 k, 11/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

Note that FIG. 40 is a diagram following FIG. 39, FIG. 41 is a diagramfollowing FIG. 40, and FIG. 42 is a diagram following FIG. 41.

FIGS. 43, 44, 45, and 46 are diagrams that illustrate an example of aparity check matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a paritycheck matrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 13/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony code of(64 k, 13/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

Note that FIG. 44 is a diagram following FIG. 43, FIG. 45 is a diagramfollowing FIG. 44, and FIG. 46 is a diagram following FIG. 45.

FIGS. 47 and 48 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung code of(64 k, 6/15)), proposed by Samsung.

Note that FIG. 48 is a diagram following FIG. 47

FIGS. 49, 50, and 51 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 8/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung code of(64 k, 8/15)), proposed by Samsung.

Note that FIG. 50 is a diagram following FIG. 49, and FIG. 51 is adiagram following FIG. 50.

FIGS. 52, 53, and 54 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 12/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung code of(64 k, 12/15)), proposed by Samsung.

Note that FIG. 53 is a diagram following FIG. 52, and FIG. 54 is adiagram following FIG. 53.

FIG. 55 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (16 k, 6/15)),proposed by LGE.

FIG. 56 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (16 k, 7/15)),proposed by LGE.

FIG. 57 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (16 k, 9/15)),proposed by LGE.

FIG. 58 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 11/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (16 k, 11/15)),proposed by LGE.

FIG. 59 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 13/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (16 k, 13/15)),proposed by LGE.

FIGS. 60, 61, and 62 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 10/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE code of (64k, 10/15)), proposed by LGE.

Note that FIG. 61 is a diagram following FIG. 60, and FIG. 62 is adiagram following FIG. 61.

FIGS. 63, 64, and 65 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as NERC code of (64k, 9/15)), proposed by NERC.

Note that FIG. 64 is a diagram following FIG. 63, and FIG. 65 is adiagram following FIG. 64.

FIG. 66 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a parity checkmatrix initial value table of the ETRI type for a parity check matrix ofa new LDPC code having a code length N of 16 kbits and a coding rate rof 5/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15)),proposed by CRC/ETRI.

FIGS. 67 and 68 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the ETRI type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 5/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI code of (64k, 5/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

Note that FIG. 68 is a diagram following FIG. 67.

FIGS. 69 and 70 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the ETRI type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI code of (64k, 6/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

Note that FIG. 70 is a diagram following FIG. 69.

FIGS. 71 and 72 are diagrams that illustrate an example of a paritycheck matrix initial value table of the ETRI type for a parity checkmatrix of a new LDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and acoding rate r of 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI code of (64k, 7/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

Note that FIG. 72 is a diagram following FIG. 71.

Among the new LDPC codes, particularly, the Sony code is an LDPC codehaving good performance.

Here, the LDPC code of good performance is an LDPC code that is acquiredfrom an appropriate parity check matrix H.

The appropriate parity check matrix H, for example, is a parity checkmatrix satisfying a predetermined condition that a bit error rate (BER)(and a frame error rate (FER)) becomes smaller when an LDPC codeacquired from the parity check matrix H is transmitted with low E_(s)/N₀or E_(b)/N_(o)(signal-to-noise power ratio per bit).

For example, the appropriate parity check matrix H can be acquired byperforming simulation of measuring a BER at the time of transmittingLDPC codes acquired from various parity check matrices satisfying apredetermined condition at a low E_(s)/N_(o).

As a predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriate paritycheck matrix H, for example, an analysis result acquired by a codeperformance analysis method called density evolution (Density Evolution)is good, and there is no loop of elements of “1” called cycle-4, or thelike.

Here, in the information matrix H_(A), it is known that the decodingperformance of an LDPC code is degraded in a case where elements of “1”are densely formed like in case of cycle-4. For this reason, it isrequested that there is no cycle-4 as the predetermined condition to besatisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

Note that the predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriateparity check matrix H can be appropriately determined from theviewpoints of the improvement in the decoding performance of an LDPCcode, the facilitation (simplification) of the decoding process of anLDPC code, and the like.

FIGS. 73 and 74 are diagrams that illustrate the density evolutionacquiring an analysis result as a predetermined condition to besatisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

The density evolution is a code analysis method for calculating theexpectation value of an error probability of the entire LDPC code(ensemble) having a code length N of ∞ that is characterized by a degreesequence described later.

For example, as the dispersion value of noise is gradually increasedfrom 0 on the AWGN channel, while, first, the expectation value of theerror probability of a certain ensemble is “0”. However, when thedispersion value of noise becomes a certain threshold or more, theexpectation value is not “0”.

According to the density evolution, by comparing the thresholds of thedispersion values of noise (hereinafter, also referred to as aperformance threshold) for which the expectation value of the errorprobability is not “0”, it can be determined whether the performance(the appropriateness of the parity check matrix) of the ensemble is goodor bad.

Note that, for a specific LDPC code, when an ensemble to which the LDPCcode belongs is determined, and the density evolution is performed forthe ensemble, rough performance of the LDPC code can be predicted.

Accordingly, in a case where an ensemble of good performance is found,an LDPC code of good performance can be found from among LDPC codes thatbelong to the ensemble.

Here, the degree sequence described above represents at what percentagea variable node or a check node having the weight of each value ispresent for the code length N of an LDPC code.

For example, a regular (3, 6) LDPC code having a coding rate of 1/2belongs to an ensemble that is characterized by a degree sequence inwhich the weight (column weight) of all the variable nodes is 3, and theweight (row weight) of all the check nodes is 6.

FIG. 73 illustrates a Tanner graph of such an ensemble.

In the Tanner graph illustrated in FIG. 73, there are N variable nodesrepresented as circles (mark “◯”) in the diagram wherein N is equal tothe code length N, and there are N/2 check nodes represented as squares(mark “□”) wherein N/2 is equal to a multiplication value acquired bymultiplying the code length N by the coding rate “1/2”.

Three branches (edges) are connected to each variable node, whereinthree is equal to the column weight, and accordingly, there are a totalof 3N branches connected to the N variable nodes.

In addition, six branches are connected to each check node wherein sixis equal to the row weight, and accordingly, there are a total of 3Nbranches connected to the N/2 check nodes.

Furthermore, there is one interleaver in the Tanner graph illustrated inFIG. 73.

The interleaver randomly rearranges 3N branches connected to the Nvariable nodes and connects each branch after the rearrangement to oneof 3N branches connected to the N/2 check nodes.

There are (3N)! (=(3N)×(3N−1)× . . . ×1l) rearrangement patterns for therearrangement of the 3N branches connected to the N variable nodes inthe interleaver. Accordingly, an ensemble characterized by the degreesequence in which the weight of all the variable nodes is 3, and theweight of all the check nodes is 6 is a set of (3N)! LDPC codes.

In simulation for acquiring an LDPC code of good performance(appropriate parity check matrix), an ensemble of a multi-edge type isused in the density evolution.

In the multi-edge type, an interleaver through which the branchesconnected to the variable nodes and the branches connected to the checknodes pass is divided into a plurality of parts (multi edges), and,accordingly, the ensemble is more strictly characterized.

FIG. 74 illustrates an example of a Tanner graph of an ensemble of themulti-edge type.

In the Tanner graph illustrated in FIG. 74, there are two interleaversincluding the first interleaver and the second interleaver.

In addition, in the Tanner graph illustrated in FIG. 74, there are v1variable nodes each having one branch connected to the first interleaverand no branch connected to the second interleaver, there are v2 variablenodes each having one branch connected to the first interleaver and twobranches connected to the second interleaver, and there are v3 variablenodes each having no branch connected to the first interleaver and twobranches connected to the second interleaver.

Furthermore, in the Tanner graph illustrated in FIG. 74, there are c1check nodes each having two branches connected to the first interleaverand no branch connected to the second interleaver, there are c2 checknodes each having two branches connected to the first interleaver andtwo branches connected to the second interleaver, and there are c3 checknodes each having no branch connected to the first interleaver and threebranches connected to the second interleaver.

Here, the density evolution and the mounting thereof, for example, aredescribed in “On the Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes within0.0045 dB of the Shannon Limit”, S. Y Chung, G. D. Forney, T. J.Richardson, R. Urbanke, IEEE Communications Leggers, VOL. 5, NO. 2,February 2001.

In simulation for acquiring a Sony code (a parity check matrix initialvalue table thereof), according to the density evolution of themulti-edge type, an ensemble for which a performance threshold that isE_(b)/N₀ (signal-to-noise power ratio per bit), at which the BER startsto fall (decrease), is a predetermined value or less is retrieved, andan LDPC code for which the BER in a case where one or more quadraturemodulations such as QPSK are used is low is selected from among LDPCcodes belonging to the ensemble as an LDPC code of good performance.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the Sony code is acquiredthrough the simulation described above.

Thus, according to the Sony code acquired from the parity check matrixinitial value table, excellent communication quality can be secured indata transmission.

FIG. 75 is a diagram that illustrates parity check matrices H(hereinafter, also referred to as “parity check matrices H of Sony codesof (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15)”) acquired from theparity check matrix initial value table of the Sony codes (16 k, 8/15),(16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

Each of all the minimum cycle lengths of the parity check matrices H ofthe Sony codes (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15) has avalue exceeding cycle-4, and thus there is no cycle 4 (a loop ofelements of “1” having a loop length of 4). Here, the minimum cyclelength (girth) represents a minimum value of a length (a loop length) ofa loop configured by elements of “1” in the parity check matrix H.

In addition, a performance threshold of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) isset to 0.805765, a performance threshold of the Sony code of (16 k,10/15) is set to 2.471011, and a performance threshold of the Sony codeof (16 k, 12/15) is set to 4.269922.

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrices H of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k,12/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 forthe following KX2 columns, the column weight is set to Y1 for thefollowing KY1 columns, the column weight is set to Y2 for the followingKY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2 for the following (M−1)columns, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N (=16200 bits)of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k,10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M ofcolumns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as represented inFIG. 75.

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k,10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), similarly to the parity check matrixdescribed above with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, a column disposed ona further head side (the left side) tends to have a higher columnweight, and thus a code bit of the Sony code disposed on a further headside tends to be more resistant against an error (have resistanceagainst an error).

According to the simulation conducted by the applicant of the presentapplication, an excellent BER/FER is acquired for the Sony codes of (16k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), and thus excellentcommunication quality can be secured in data transmission using the Sonycodes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

FIG. 76 is a diagram that illustrates parity check matrices H of theSony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15).

Each of all the minimum cycle lengths of the parity check matrices H ofthe Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15) has a value exceeding cycle-4, and thus there is no cycle-4.

In addition, a performance threshold value of the Sony code of (64 k,7/15) is set to −0.093751, a performance threshold value of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) is set to 1.658523, a performance threshold valueof the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) is set to 3.351930, and a performancethreshold value of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) is set to 5.301749.

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrices H of the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k,11/15), and (64 k, 13/15) starting from the 1st column, the columnweight is set to X2 for the following KX2 columns, the column weight isset to Y1 for the following KY1 columns, the column weight is set to Y2for the following KY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2 for thefollowing (M−1) columns, and the column weight is set to 1 for the lastcolumn.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64800 bits ofthe Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k,9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2,and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set asillustrated in FIG. 76.

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k,9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and, (64 k, 13/15), similarly to the parity checkmatrix described above with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, a columndisposed on a further head side (the left side) tends to have a highercolumn weight, and thus a code bit of the Sony code disposed on afurther front side tends to be more resistant against an error.

According to the simulation conducted by the applicant of the presentapplication, an excellent BER/FER is acquired for the Sony codes of (64k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), and thusexcellent communication quality can be secured in data transmissionusing the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and(64 k, 13/15).

FIG. 77 is a diagram that illustrates parity check matrices H of theSamsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrices H of the Samsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64k, 12/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2for the following KX2 columns, the column weight is set to Y1 for thefollowing KY1 columns, the column weight is set to Y2 for the followingKY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2 for the following (M−1)columns, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64800 bits ofthe Samsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Samsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M ofcolumns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated inFIG. 77.

FIG. 78 is a diagram that illustrates parity check matrices H of the LGEcodes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and(16 k, 13/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrices H of the LGE codes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15),(16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15) starting from the 1st column, thecolumn weight is set to X2 for the following KX2 columns, the columnweight is set to Y1 for the following KY1 columns, the column weight isset to Y2 for the following KY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2for the following (M−1) columns, and the column weight is set to 1 forthe last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=16200 bits ofthe LGE codes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k,11/15), and (16 k, 13/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the LGE codes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k,7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15), the numbers KX1,KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2are set as illustrated in FIG. 78.

FIG. 79 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of the LGEcode of (64 k, 10/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrix H of the LGE code of (64 k, 10/15) starting from the 1st column,the column weight is set to X2 for the following KX2 columns, the columnweight is set to Y1 for the following KY1 columns, the column weight isset to Y2 for the following KY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2for the following (M−1) columns, and the column weight is set to 1 forthe last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64800 bits ofthe LGE code of (64 k, 10/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the LGE code of (64 k, 10/15), thenumbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2,Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 79.

FIG. 80 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of theNERC code of (64 k, 9/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity checkmatrix H of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15) starting from the 1st column,the column weight is set to X2 for the following KX2 columns, the columnweight is set to Y1 for the following KY1 columns, the column weight isset to Y2 for the following KY2 columns, the column weight is set to 2for the following (M−1) columns, and the column weight is set to 1 forthe last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64800 bits ofthe NERC code of (64 k, 9/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15), thenumbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2,Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 80.

FIG. 81 is a diagram that illustrates a parity check matrix H of theETRI code of (16 k, 5/15).

For the parity check matrix H of the ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15), theparameter g=M₁ is 720.

In addition, for the ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15), since the code length Nis 16200 and the coding rate r is 5/15, the information length K=N×r is16200×5/15=5400, and the parity length M=N−K is 16200-5400=10800.

Furthermore, the parameter M₂=M−M₁=N−K−g is 10800−720=10080.

Thus, the parameter Q₁=M₁/P is 720/360=2, and the parameter Q₂=M₂/P is10080/360=28.

FIG. 82 is a diagram that illustrates parity check matrices H of ETRIcodes of (64 k, 5/15), (64 k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15).

For the parity check matrices H of the ETRI codes of (64 k, 5/15), (64k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15), the parameters g=M₁, M₂, Q₁, and Q₂ are setas illustrated in FIG. 82.

<Constellation>

FIGS. 83 to 93 are diagrams that illustrate examples of constellationtypes employed in the transmission system illustrated in FIG. 7.

In the transmission system illustrated in FIG. 7, for example, aconstellation to be employed in ATSC 3.0 may be employed.

In ATSC 3.0, for MODCOD that is a combination of a modulation scheme andan LDPC code, a constellation to be used in the MODCOD is set.

Here, in ATSC 3.0, five types of modulation schemes including QPSK, 16QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, and 1024 QAM (1 k QAM) are planned to be employed.

In addition, in ATSC 3.0, for each of two types of code length Nincluding 16 kbits and 64 kbits, LDPC codes of nine types of codingrates r including 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and13/15, in other words, 9×2=18 types of LDPC codes are planned to beemployed.

In ATSC 3.0, 18 types of LDPC codes are classified into 9 types on thebasis of the coding rate r (regardless of the code length N), and 45(=9×5) types of combinations of the 9 types of LDPC codes (LDPC codeshaving coding rates r of 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15,12/15, and 13/15) and the five types of modulation schemes are plannedto be employed as the MODCOD.

In addition, in the ATSC 3.0, for one MODCOD, one or more constellationsare planned to be employed.

The constellations include uniform constellations (UC) in which thearrangement of signal points is uniform and non-uniform constellations(NUC) in which the arrangement of signal points is not uniform.

In addition, examples of NUCs include a constellation called a1-dimensional M²-QAM non-uniform constellation (1D NUC) and aconstellation called a 2-dimensional QQAM non-uniform constellation (2DNUC).

Generally, the 1D NUC has a BER that is better than that of the UC, andthe 2D NUC has a BER that is better than that of the 1D NUC.

As the constellation of the QPSK, the UC is employed. In addition, asthe constellation of the 16 QAM, the 64 QAM, or the 256 QAM, forexample, the 2D NUC is employed, and, as the constellation of the 1024QAM, for example, the 1D NUC is employed.

Hereinafter, a constellation of the NUC used in the MODCOD having amodulation scheme in which an m-bit symbol is mapped into one of 2^(m)signal points and a coding rate of an LDPC code of r will be alsoreferred to as NUC_2^(m)_r (here, m=4, 6, 8, and 10).

For example, “NUC_16_6/15” represents a constellation of the NUC used inthe MODCOD having a modulation scheme of 16 QAM and a coding rate r ofthe LDPC code of 6/15.

In ATSC 3.0, in a case where the modulation scheme is the QPSK, for 9types of coding rates r of the LDPC code, the same constellation isplanned to be used.

In addition, in ATSC 3.0, in a case where the modulation scheme is the16 QAM, the 64 QAM, or the 256 QAM, a different constellation of the 2DNUC is planned to be used for each of 9 types of coding rates r of theLDPC code.

Furthermore, in ATSC 3.0, in a case where the modulation scheme is the1024 QAM, a different constellation of the 1D NUC is planned to be usedfor each of 9 types of coding rates r of the LDPC code.

Thus, in ATSC 3.0, for the QPSK, one type of constellation is planned tobe prepared, for each of the 16 QAM, the 64 QAM, and the 256 QAM, 9types of constellations of the 2D NUC are planned to be prepared, and,for the 1024 QAM, 9 types of constellations of the 1D NUC are planned tobe prepared.

FIG. 83 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation ofthe 2D NUC for each of 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes in a casewhere the modulation scheme is the 16 QAM.

FIG. 84 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation ofthe 2D NUC for each of 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes in a casewhere the modulation scheme is the 64 QAM.

FIG. 85 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation ofthe 2D NUC for each of 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes in a casewhere the modulation scheme is the 256 QAM.

FIG. 86 is a diagram that illustrates an example of a constellation ofthe 1D NUC for each of 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes in a casewhere the modulation scheme is 1024 QAM.

In FIGS. 83 to 86, the horizontal axis and the vertical axis arerespectively an I axis and a Q axis, and Re{x₁} and Im{x₁} respectivelyrepresent a real part and an imaginary part of a signal point x₁ ascoordinates of the signal point x₁.

In addition, in FIGS. 83 to 86, a numerical value written after “for CR”represents the coding rate r of the LDPC code.

FIG. 87 is a diagram that illustrates an example of coordinates of asignal point of the UC that is used in common to 9 types of coding ratesr (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) ofLDPC codes in a case where the modulation scheme is the QPSK.

In FIG. 87, “Input cell word y” represents a 2-bit symbol that is mappedinto a UC of the QPSK, and “Constellation point z_(q)” represents thecoordinates of a signal point z_(q). In addition, an index q of thesignal point z_(q) represents a discrete time between symbols (a timeinterval between a certain symbol and a next symbol).

In FIG. 87, the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) are represented inthe form of a complex number, and i represents an imaginary unit(√(−1)).

FIG. 88 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the coordinates of asignal point of the 2D NUC used for 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15) of the LDPCcodes in a case where the modulation scheme is the 16 QAM.

FIG. 89 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the coordinates of asignal point of the 2D NUC used for 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes ina case where the modulation scheme is the 64 QAM.

FIGS. 90 and 91 are diagrams that illustrate an example of thecoordinates of a signal point of the 2D NUC used for 9 types of codingrates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15)of LDPC codes in a case where the modulation scheme is the 256 QAM.

In FIGS. 88 to 91, NUC_2^(m)_r represents the coordinates of a signalpoint of the 2DNUC used in a case where the modulation scheme is the2^(m) QAM, and the coding rate of LDPC codes is r.

In FIGS. 88 to 91, similarly to the case illustrated in FIG. 87, thecoordinates of the signal point z_(q) are represented in the form of acomplex number, and i represents an imaginary unit.

In FIGS. 88 to 91, w # k represents the coordinates of a signal point ina first quadrant of the constellation.

In the 2D NUC, a signal point in a second quadrant of the constellationis arranged at a position acquired by moving the signal point disposedin the first quadrant symmetrically with respect to the Q axis, and asignal point in a third quadrant of the constellation is arranged at aposition acquired by moving the signal point disposed in the firstquadrant symmetrically with respect to the origin. In addition, a signalpoint in a fourth quadrant of the constellation is arranged at aposition acquired by moving the signal point disposed in the firstquadrant symmetrically with respect to the I axis.

Here, in a case where the modulation scheme is the 2^(m) QAM, m bits areconfigured as one symbol, and one symbol is mapped into a signal pointcorresponding to the symbol.

The m-bit symbol, for example, is represented by an integer value of 0to 2^(m)−1, and, when b=2^(m)/4, symbols y(0), y(1), . . . , y(2^(m)−1)represented by the integer value of 0 to 2^(m)−1 can be classified intofour symbols of y(0) to y(b−1), y(b) to y(2b−1), y(2b) to y(3b−1), andy(3b) to y(4b−1).

In FIGS. 88 to 91, a suffix k of w # k takes an integer value in therange of 0 to b−1, and w # k represents the coordinates of a signalpoint corresponding to a symbol y(k) in the range of the symbols y(0) toy(b−1).

In addition, the coordinates of a signal point corresponding to a symboly(k+b) in the range of the symbols y(b) to y(2b−1) are represented by−conj (w # k), and the coordinates of a signal point corresponding to asymbol y(k+2b) in the range of the symbols y(2b) to y(3b−1) arerepresented by conj (w # k). Furthermore, the coordinates of a signalpoint corresponding to a symbol y(k+3b) in the range of the symbolsy(3b) to y(4b−1) are represented by −w # k.

Here, conj (w # k) represents a complex conjugate of w # k.

For example, in a case where the modulation scheme is the 16 QAM, thesymbols y(0), y(1), . . . , y(15) of m=4 bits are classified into foursymbols of y(0) to y(3), y(4) to y(7), y(8) to y(11), and y(12) to y(15)with b=2⁴/4=4.

Then, among the symbols y(0) to y(15), for example, the symbol y(12) isa symbol y(k+3b)=y(0+3×4) in the range of the symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1),and k=0. Accordingly, the coordinates of the signal point correspondingto the symbol y(12) are −w # k=−w0.

Now, when the coding rate r of the LDPC code, for example, is 9/15, byreferring to FIG. 88, in a case where the modulation scheme is the 16QAM, and the coding rate r is 9/15, w0 of (NUC_16_9/15) is0.4967+1.1932i. Accordingly, the coordinates−w0 of the signal pointcorresponding to the symbol y(12) are −(0.4967+1.1932i).

FIG. 92 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the coordinates of asignal point of the 1D NUC used for 9 types of coding rates r (=5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of LDPC codesin a case where the modulation scheme is the 1024 QAM.

In FIG. 92, a column of NUC_1 k_r represents a value taken by u # krepresenting the coordinates of a signal point of the 1D NUC used in acase where the modulation scheme is the 1024 QAM, and the coding rate ofLDPC codes is r.

u # k represents the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary partIm(z_(q)) of a complex number as the coordinates of the signal pointz_(q) of the 1D NUC.

FIG. 93 is a diagram that illustrates a relation between the symbol yand u # k as each of the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary partIm(z_(q)) of the complex number representing the coordinates of thesignal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

Now, a 10-bit symbol y of the 1024 QAM is assumed to be represented byy_(0,q), y_(1,q), y_(2,q), y_(3,q), y_(4,q), y_(5,q), y_(6,q), y_(7,q),y_(8,q), and y_(9,q) from the first bit (the most significant bit).

A of FIG. 93 illustrates a correspondence relation between 5odd-numbered bits y_(0,q), y_(2,q), y_(4,q), y_(6,q), y_(8,q) of thesymbol y and u # k representing the real part Re(z_(q)) (of thecoordinates) of a signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

B of FIG. 93 illustrates a correspondence relation between 5even-numbered bits y_(1,q), y_(3,q), y_(5,q), y_(7,q), and y_(9,q) ofthe symbol y and u # k representing the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) (of thecoordinates) of a signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

For example, in a case where the 10-bit symbol y=(y_(0,q), y_(1,q),y_(2,q), y_(3,q), y_(4,q), y_(5,q), y_(6,q), y_(7,q), y_(8,q), y_(9,q))of the 1024 QAM is (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), the 5 odd-numberedbits (y_(0,q), y_(2,q), y_(4,q), y_(6,q), y_(8,q)) are (0, 1, 0, 1, 0),and the 5 even-numbered bits (y_(1,q), y_(3,q), y_(5,q), y_(7,q), andy_(9,q)) are (0, 0, 1, 1, 0).

In A of FIG. 93, the 5 odd-numbered bits (0, 1, 0, 1, 0) are associatedwith u3, and thus, the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q)corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) is u3.

In addition, in B of FIG. 93, the 5 even-numbered bits (0, 0, 1, 1, 0)are associated with u11, and thus, the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of thesignal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1,1, 0, 0) is u11.

Meanwhile, in a case where the coding rate r of the LDPC code, forexample, is 7/15, by referring to FIG. 92 described above, for the 1DNUC (NUC_1 k_7/15) used in a case where the modulation scheme is the1024 QAM and the coding rate r of LDPC codes is 7/15, u3 is 1.1963, andu11 is 6.9391.

Accordingly, the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q)corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) is u3(=1.1963), and Im(z_(q)) is u11 (=6.9391). As a result, the coordinatesof the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0,1, 1, 1, 0, 0) are represented by 1.1963+6.9391i.

Note that the signal points of the 1D NUC are arranged in a grid form ona straight line parallel to the I axis or a straight line parallel tothe Q axis. However, an interval between the signal points is notconstant. In addition, in the transmission of the signal point (themapped data), average power of the signal points on the constellation isnormalized. When a root mean square value of absolute values of all thesignal points (the coordinates thereof) on the constellation isrepresented by P_(ave), the normalization is performed by multiplyingeach signal point z_(q) on the constellation by a reciprocal1/(√P_(ave)) of the square root √P_(ave) of the root mean square valueP_(ave).

According to the constellations described above with reference to FIGS.83 to 93, it is confirmed that an excellent error rate is acquired.

<Block Interleaver 25>

FIG. 94 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe block interleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 9.

The block interleaver 25 includes a storage area called a part 1 and astorage area called a part 2.

Each of the parts 1 and 2 is configured by aligning columns as storageareas each storing one bit in the row (horizontal) direction and storinga predetermined number of bits in the column (vertical) direction thatcorrespond to the same number C as the number m of bits of a symbol inthe row direction.

When the number of bits (hereinafter, also referred to as apart columnlength) that are stored in the column direction by the column of thepart 1 is represented by R1, and the part column length of the column ofthe part 2 is represented by R2, (R1+R2)×C is equal to the code length N(64800 bits or 16200 bits in the present embodiment) of an LDPC codethat is a block interleave target.

In addition, the part column length R1 is equal to a multiple of 360bits that corresponds to the unit size P, and the part column length R2is equal to a remainder acquired when a sum (hereinafter, also referredto as a column length) R1+R2 of the part column length R1 of the part 1and the part column length R2 of the part 2 is divided by 360 bitscorresponding to the unit size P.

Here, the column length R1+R2 is equal to a value acquired by dividingthe code length N of the LDPC code that is the block interleave targetby the number m of bits of the symbol.

For example, in a case where 16 QAM is employed as the modulation schemefor the LDPC code of which the code length N is 16200 bits, the number mof bits of the symbol is 4 bits, and accordingly, the column lengthR1+R2 is 4050 (=16200/4) bits.

In addition, since a remainder acquired when the column lengthR1+R2=4050 is divided by 360 bits used as the unit size P is 90, thepart column length R2 of the part 2 is 90 bits.

Furthermore, the part column length R1 of the part 1 isR1+R2−R2=4050−90=3960 bits.

FIG. 95 is a diagram that illustrates the number C of columns of theparts 1 and 2 and the part column lengths (the number of rows) R1 and R2for a combination of the code length N and the modulation scheme.

FIG. 95 illustrates the number C of columns of the parts 1 and 2 and thepart column lengths R1 and R2 for combinations of LDPC codes in a casewhere the LDPC codes respectively have code lengths N of 16200 bits and64800 bits and the modulation schemes of QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM,and 1024 QAM.

FIG. 96 is a diagram that illustrates the block interleave performed bythe block interleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 94.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleave by writing andreading LDPC codes for the parts 1 and 2.

In other words, in the block interleave, as illustrated in A of FIG. 96,writing of code bits of LDPC codes of one code word in the downwarddirection (in the column direction) from the top of the columns of thepart 1 is performed from the left side toward a rightward column.

Then, when the writing of the code bits is completed up to the bottom ofthe rightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 1, writingof the remaining code bits in the downward direction (in the columndirection) from the top of the column of the part 2 is performed fromthe left side toward a rightward column.

Thereafter, when the writing of the code bits is completed up to thebottom of the rightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part2, as illustrated in B of FIG. 96, the code bits are read from the 1strows of all the C columns of the part 1 in the row direction in units ofC=m bits.

Then, the reading of the code bits from all the C columns of the part 1is sequentially performed toward a row disposed on the lower side, and,when the reading is completed up to an R1-th row that is the last row,the code bits are read from the 1st rows of all the C columns of thepart 2 in the row direction in units of C=m bits.

The reading of the code bits from all the C columns of the part 2 issequentially performed toward a row disposed on the lower side, and thereading is performed up to an R2-th row that is the last row.

As above, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 in units of m bitsare supplied to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8) as the symbol.

<Group-Wise Interleave>

FIG. 97 is a diagram that illustrates group-wise interleave performed bythe group-wise interleaver 24 illustrated in FIG. 9.

In the group-wise interleave, 360 bits of one segment are used as thebit group, wherein the LDPC code of one code word is divided intosegments from the head in units of 360 bits that is equal to the unitsize P, and the LDPC code of one code word is interleaved according to apredetermined pattern (hereinafter, also referred to as a GW pattern) inunits of bit groups.

Here, when the LDPC code of one code word is segmented into the bitgroups, an (i+1)-th bit group from the head will be also referred to asa bit group i.

In a case where the unit size P is 360, for example, the LDPC code ofwhich the code length N is 1800 bits is segmented into 5 (=1800/360) bitgroups of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. In addition, for example, theLDPC code of which the code length N is 16200 bits is segmented into 45(=16200/360) bit groups of bit groups 0, 1, . . . , and 44, and the LDPCcode of which the code length N is 64800 bits is segmented into 180(=64800/360) bit groups of bit groups 0, 1, . . . , 179.

In addition, hereinafter, the GW pattern is assumed to be represented bya sequence of numbers indicating a bit group. For example, for a LDPCcode of which the code length N is 1800 bits, for example, the GWpatterns 4, 2, 0, 3, 1 represent that a sequence of bit groups 0, 1, 2,3, and 4 is interleaved (rearranged) into a sequence of bit groups 4, 2,0, 3, and 1.

The GW pattern can be set at least for each code length N of the LDPCcode.

FIG. 98 is a diagram that illustrates a first example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 98, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

39, 47, 96, 176, 33, 75, 165, 38, 27, 58, 90, 76, 17, 46, 10, 91, 133,69, 171, 32, 117, 78, 13, 146, 101, 36, 0, 138, 25, 77, 122, 49, 14,125, 140, 93, 130, 2, 104, 102, 128, 4, 111, 151, 84, 167, 35, 127, 156,55, 82, 85, 66, 114, 8, 147, 115, 113, 5, 31, 100, 106, 48, 52, 67, 107,18, 126, 112, 50, 9, 143, 28, 160, 71, 79, 43, 98, 86, 94, 64, 3, 166,105, 103, 118, 63, 51, 139, 172, 141, 175, 56, 74, 95, 29, 45, 129, 120,168, 92, 150, 7, 162, 153, 137, 108, 159, 157, 173, 23, 89, 132, 57, 37,70, 134, 40, 21, 149, 80, 1, 121, 59, 110, 142, 152, 15, 154, 145, 12,170, 54, 155, 99, 22, 123, 72, 177, 131, 116, 44, 158, 73, 11, 65, 164,119, 174, 34, 83, 53, 24, 42, 60, 26, 161, 68, 178, 41, 148, 109, 87,144, 135, 20, 62, 81, 169, 124, 6, 19, 30, 163, 61, 179, 136, 97, 16, 88

FIG. 99 is a diagram that illustrates a second example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 99, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

6, 14, 1, 127, 161, 177, 75, 123, 62, 103, 17, 18, 167, 88, 27, 34, 8,110, 7, 78, 94, 44, 45, 166, 149, 61, 163, 145, 155, 157, 82, 130, 70,92, 151, 139, 160, 133, 26, 2, 79, 15, 95, 122, 126, 178, 101, 24, 138,146, 179, 30, 86, 58, 11, 121, 159, 49, 84, 132, 117, 119, 50, 52, 4,51, 48, 74, 114, 59, 40, 131, 33, 89, 66, 136, 72, 16, 134, 37, 164, 77,99, 173, 20, 158, 156, 90, 41, 176, 81, 42, 60, 109, 22, 150, 105, 120,12, 64, 56, 68, 111, 21, 148, 53, 169, 97, 108, 35, 140, 91, 115, 152,36, 106, 154, 0, 25, 54, 63, 172, 80, 168, 142, 118, 162, 135, 73, 83,153, 141, 9, 28, 55, 31, 112, 107, 85, 100, 175, 23, 57, 47, 38, 170,137, 76, 147, 93, 19, 98, 124, 39, 87, 174, 144, 46, 10, 129, 69, 71,125, 96, 116, 171, 128, 65, 102, 5, 43, 143, 104, 13, 67, 29, 3, 113,32, 165

FIG. 100 is a diagram that illustrates a third example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 100, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

103, 116, 158, 0, 27, 73, 140, 30, 148, 36, 153, 154, 10, 174, 122, 178,6, 106, 162, 59, 142, 112, 7, 74, 11, 51, 49, 72, 31, 65, 156, 95, 171,105, 173, 168, 1, 155, 125, 82, 86, 161, 57, 165, 54, 26, 121, 25, 157,93, 22, 34, 33, 39, 19, 46, 150, 141, 12, 9, 79, 118, 24, 17, 85, 117,67, 58, 129, 160, 89, 61, 146, 77, 130, 102, 101, 137, 94, 69, 14, 133,60, 149, 136, 16, 108, 41, 90, 28, 144, 13, 175, 114, 2, 18, 63, 68, 21,109, 53, 123, 75, 81, 143, 169, 42, 119, 138, 104, 4, 131, 145, 8, 5,76, 15, 88, 177, 124, 45, 97, 64, 100, 37, 132, 38, 44, 107, 35, 43, 80,50, 91, 152, 78, 166, 55, 115, 170, 159, 147, 167, 87, 83, 29, 96, 172,48, 98, 62, 139, 70, 164, 84, 47, 151, 134, 126, 113, 179, 110, 111,128, 32, 52, 66, 40, 135, 176, 99, 127, 163, 3, 120, 71, 56, 92, 23, 20

FIG. 101 is a diagram that illustrates a fourth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 101, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

139, 106, 125, 81, 88, 104, 3, 66, 60, 65, 2, 95, 155, 24, 151, 5, 51,53, 29, 75, 52, 85, 8, 22, 98, 93, 168, 15, 86, 126, 173, 100, 130, 176,20, 10, 87, 92, 175, 36, 143, 110, 67, 146, 149, 127, 133, 42, 84, 64,78, 1, 48, 159, 79, 138, 46, 112, 164, 31, 152, 57, 144, 69, 27, 136,122, 170, 132, 171, 129, 115, 107, 134, 89, 157, 113, 119, 135, 45, 148,83, 114, 71, 128, 161, 140, 26, 13, 59, 38, 35, 96, 28, 0, 80, 174, 137,49, 16, 101, 74, 179, 91, 44, 55, 169, 131, 163, 123, 145, 162, 108,178, 12, 77, 167, 21, 154, 82, 54, 90, 177, 17, 41, 39, 7, 102, 156, 62,109, 14, 37, 23, 153, 6, 147, 50, 47, 63, 18, 70, 68, 124, 72, 33, 158,32, 118, 99, 105, 94, 25, 121, 166, 120, 160, 141, 165, 111, 19, 150,97, 76, 73, 142, 117, 4, 172, 58, 11, 30, 9, 103, 40, 61, 43, 34, 56,116

FIG. 102 is a diagram that illustrates a fifth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 102, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

72, 59, 65, 61, 80, 2, 66, 23, 69, 101, 19, 16, 53, 109, 74, 106, 113,56, 97, 30, 164, 15, 25, 20, 117, 76, 50, 82, 178, 13, 169, 36, 107, 40,122, 138, 42, 96, 27, 163, 46, 64, 124, 57, 87, 120, 168, 166, 39, 177,22, 67, 134, 9, 102, 28, 148, 91, 83, 88, 167, 32, 99, 140, 60, 152, 1,123, 29, 154, 26, 70, 149, 171, 12, 6, 55, 100, 62, 86, 114, 174, 132,139, 7, 45, 103, 130, 31, 49, 151, 119, 79, 41, 118, 126, 3, 179, 110,111, 51, 93, 145, 73, 133, 54, 104, 161, 37, 129, 63, 38, 95, 159, 89,112, 115, 136, 33, 68, 17, 35, 137, 173, 143, 78, 77, 141, 150, 58, 158,125, 156, 24, 105, 98, 43, 84, 92, 128, 165, 153, 108, 0, 121, 170, 131,144, 47, 157, 11, 155, 176, 48, 135, 4, 116, 146, 127, 52, 162, 142, 8,5, 34, 85, 90, 44, 172, 94, 160, 175, 75, 71, 18, 147, 10, 21, 14, 81

FIG. 103 is a diagram that illustrates a sixth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 103, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

8, 27, 7, 70, 75, 84, 50, 131, 146, 99, 96, 141, 155, 157, 82, 57, 120,38, 137, 13, 83, 23, 40, 9, 56, 171, 124, 172, 39, 142, 20, 128, 133, 2,89, 153, 103, 112, 129, 151, 162, 106, 14, 62, 107, 110, 73, 71, 177,154, 80, 176, 24, 91, 32, 173, 25, 16, 17, 159, 21, 92, 6, 67, 81, 37,15, 136, 100, 64, 102, 163, 168, 18, 78, 76, 45, 140, 123, 118, 58, 122,11, 19, 86, 98, 119, 111, 26, 138, 125, 74, 97, 63, 10, 152, 161, 175,87, 52, 60, 22, 79, 104, 30, 158, 54, 145, 49, 34, 166, 109, 179, 174,93, 41, 116, 48, 3, 29, 134, 167, 105, 132, 114, 169, 147, 144, 77, 61,170, 90, 178, 0, 43, 149, 130, 117, 47, 44, 36, 115, 88, 101, 148, 69,46, 94, 143, 164, 139, 126, 160, 156, 33, 113, 65, 121, 53, 42, 66, 165,85, 127, 135, 5, 55, 150, 72, 35, 31, 51, 4, 1, 68, 12, 28, 95, 59, 108

FIG. 104 is a diagram that illustrates a seventh example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 104, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36,38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72,74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106,108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134,136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162,164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17,19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53,55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89,91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119,121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147,149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175,177, 179

FIG. 105 is a diagram that illustrates an eighth example of the GWpattern for an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 105, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

11, 5, 8, 18, 1, 25, 32, 31, 19, 21, 50, 102, 65, 85, 45, 86, 98, 104,64, 78, 72, 53, 103, 79, 93, 41, 82, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132,136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 4, 12, 15, 3, 10,20, 26, 34, 23, 33, 68, 63, 69, 92, 44, 90, 75, 56, 100, 47, 106, 42,39, 97, 99, 89, 52, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145,149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 6, 16, 14, 7, 13, 36, 28, 29,37, 73, 70, 54, 76, 91, 66, 80, 88, 51, 96, 81, 95, 38, 57, 105, 107,59, 61, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158,162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 0, 9, 17, 2, 27, 30, 24, 22, 35, 77, 74, 46,94, 62, 87, 83, 101, 49, 43, 84, 48, 60, 67, 71, 58, 40, 55, 111, 115,119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171,175, 179

FIG. 106 is a diagram that illustrates a ninth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 106, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

9, 18, 15, 13, 35, 26, 28, 99, 40, 68, 85, 58, 63, 104, 50, 52, 94, 69,108, 114, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168, 174, 8, 16, 17,24, 37, 23, 22, 103, 64, 43, 47, 56, 92, 59, 70, 42, 106, 60, 109, 115,121, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 4, 1, 10, 19, 30, 31,89, 86, 77, 81, 51, 79, 83, 48, 45, 62, 67, 65, 110, 116, 122, 128, 134,140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 6, 2, 0, 25, 20, 34, 98, 105, 82, 96,90, 107, 53, 74, 73, 93, 55, 102, 111, 117, 123, 129, 135, 141, 147,153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 14, 7, 3, 27, 21, 33, 44, 97, 38, 75, 72, 41,84, 80, 100, 87, 76, 57, 112, 118, 124, 130, 136, 142, 148, 154, 160,166, 172, 178, 5, 11, 12, 32, 29, 36, 88, 71, 78, 95, 49, 54, 61, 66,46, 39, 101, 91, 113, 119, 125, 131, 137, 143, 149, 155, 161, 167, 173,179

FIG. 107 is a diagram that illustrates a tenth example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 107, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

0, 14, 19, 21, 2, 11, 22, 9, 8, 7, 16, 3, 26, 24, 27, 80, 100, 121, 107,31, 36, 42, 46, 49, 75, 93, 127, 95, 119, 73, 61, 63, 117, 89, 99, 129,52, 111, 124, 48, 122, 82, 106, 91, 92, 71, 103, 102, 81, 113, 101, 97,33, 115, 59, 112, 90, 51, 126, 85, 123, 40, 83, 53, 69, 70, 132, 134,136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162,164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 4, 5, 10, 12, 20, 6, 18, 13, 17,15, 1, 29, 28, 23, 25, 67, 116, 66, 104, 44, 50, 47, 84, 76, 65, 130,56, 128, 77, 39, 94, 87, 120, 62, 88, 74, 35, 110, 131, 98, 60, 37, 45,78, 125, 41, 34, 118, 38, 72, 108, 58, 43, 109, 57, 105, 68, 86, 79, 96,32, 114, 64, 55, 30, 54, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149,151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177,179

FIG. 108 is a diagram that illustrates an 11th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 108, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

21, 11, 12, 9, 0, 6, 24, 25, 85, 103, 118, 122, 71, 101, 41, 93, 55, 73,100, 40, 106, 119, 45, 80, 128, 68, 129, 61, 124, 36, 126, 117, 114,132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 20, 18, 10,13, 16, 8, 26, 27, 54, 111, 52, 44, 87, 113, 115, 58, 116, 49, 77, 95,86, 30, 78, 81, 56, 125, 53, 89, 94, 50, 123, 65, 83, 133, 137, 141,145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 17, 1, 4, 7, 15, 29, 82,32, 102, 76, 121, 92, 130, 127, 62, 107, 38, 46, 43, 110, 75, 104, 70,91, 69, 96, 120, 42, 34, 79, 35, 105, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158,162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 19, 5, 3, 14, 22, 28, 23, 109, 51, 108, 131,33, 84, 88, 64, 63, 59, 57, 97, 98, 48, 31, 99, 37, 72, 39, 74, 66, 60,67, 47, 112, 90, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175,179

FIG. 109 is a diagram that illustrates a 12th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 109, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

12, 15, 2, 16, 27, 50, 35, 74, 38, 70, 108, 32, 112, 54, 30, 122, 72,116, 36, 90, 49, 85, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168, 174, 0, 14, 9,5, 23, 66, 68, 52, 96, 117, 84, 128, 100, 63, 60, 127, 81, 99, 53, 55,103, 95, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 10, 22, 13, 11, 28,104, 37, 57, 115, 46, 65, 129, 107, 75, 119, 110, 31, 43, 97, 78, 125,58, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 4, 19, 6, 8, 24, 44, 101,94, 118, 130, 69, 71, 83, 34, 86, 124, 48, 106, 89, 40, 102, 91, 135,141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 3, 20, 7, 17, 25, 87, 41, 120, 47,80, 59, 62, 88, 45, 56, 131, 61, 126, 113, 92, 51, 98, 136, 142, 148,154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 21, 18, 1, 26, 29, 39, 73, 121, 105, 77, 42,114, 93, 82, 111, 109, 67, 79, 123, 64, 76, 33, 137, 143, 149, 155, 161,167, 173, 179

FIG. 110 is a diagram that illustrates a 13th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 110, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36,38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72,74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106,108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134,136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162,164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17,19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53,55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89,91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119,121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147,149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175,177, 179

FIG. 111 is a diagram that illustrates a 14th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 111, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72,76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132,136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 1, 5, 9, 13, 17,21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89,93, 97, 101, 105, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149,153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38,42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106,110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162,166, 170, 174, 178, 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 51,55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 95, 99, 103, 107, 111, 115, 119,123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175,179

FIG. 112 is a diagram that illustrates a 15th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 112, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

8, 112, 92, 165, 12, 55, 5, 126, 87, 70, 69, 94, 103, 78, 137, 148, 9,60, 13, 7, 178, 79, 43, 136, 34, 68, 118, 152, 49, 15, 99, 61, 66, 28,109, 125, 33, 167, 81, 93, 97, 26, 35, 30, 153, 131, 122, 71, 107, 130,76, 4, 95, 42, 58, 134, 0, 89, 75, 40, 129, 31, 80, 101, 52, 16, 142,44, 138, 46, 116, 27, 82, 88, 143, 128, 72, 29, 83, 117, 172, 14, 51,159, 48, 160, 100, 1, 102, 90, 22, 3, 114, 19, 108, 113, 39, 73, 111,155, 106, 105, 91, 150, 54, 25, 135, 139, 147, 36, 56, 123, 6, 67, 104,96, 157, 10, 62, 164, 86, 74, 133, 120, 174, 53, 140, 156, 171, 149,127, 85, 59, 124, 84, 11, 21, 132, 41, 145, 158, 32, 17, 23, 50, 169,170, 38, 18, 151, 24, 166, 175, 2, 47, 57, 98, 20, 177, 161, 154, 176,163, 37, 110, 168, 141, 64, 65, 173, 162, 121, 45, 77, 115, 179, 63,119, 146, 144

FIG. 113 is a diagram that illustrates a 16th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 113, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

103, 138, 168, 82, 116, 45, 178, 28, 160, 2, 129, 148, 150, 23, 54, 106,24, 78, 49, 87, 145, 179, 26, 112, 119, 12, 18, 174, 21, 48, 134, 137,102, 147, 152, 72, 68, 3, 22, 169, 30, 64, 108, 142, 131, 13, 113, 115,121, 37, 133, 136, 101, 59, 73, 161, 38, 164, 43, 167, 42, 144, 41, 85,91, 58, 128, 154, 172, 57, 75, 17, 157, 19, 4, 86, 15, 25, 35, 9, 105,123, 14, 34, 56, 111, 60, 90, 74, 149, 146, 62, 163, 31, 16, 141, 88, 6,155, 130, 89, 107, 135, 79, 8, 10, 124, 171, 114, 162, 33, 66, 126, 71,44, 158, 51, 84, 165, 173, 120, 7, 11, 170, 176, 1, 156, 96, 175, 153,36, 47, 110, 63, 132, 29, 95, 143, 98, 70, 20, 122, 53, 100, 93, 140,109, 139, 76, 151, 52, 61, 46, 125, 94, 50, 67, 81, 69, 65, 40, 127, 77,32, 39, 27, 99, 97, 159, 166, 80, 117, 55, 92, 118, 0, 5, 83, 177, 104

FIG. 114 is a diagram that illustrates a 17th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 114, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

104, 120, 47, 136, 116, 109, 22, 20, 117, 61, 52, 108, 86, 99, 76, 90,37, 58, 36, 138, 95, 130, 177, 93, 56, 33, 24, 82, 0, 67, 83, 46, 79,70, 154, 18, 75, 43, 49, 63, 162, 16, 167, 80, 125, 1, 123, 107, 9, 45,53, 15, 38, 23, 57, 141, 4, 178, 165, 113, 21, 105, 11, 124, 126, 77,146, 29, 131, 27, 176, 40, 74, 91, 140, 64, 73, 44, 129, 157, 172, 51,10, 128, 119, 163, 103, 28, 85, 156, 78, 6, 8, 173, 160, 106, 31, 54,122, 25, 139, 68, 150, 164, 87, 135, 97, 166, 42, 169, 161, 137, 26, 39,133, 5, 94, 69, 2, 30, 171, 149, 115, 96, 145, 101, 92, 143, 12, 88, 81,71, 19, 147, 50, 152, 159, 155, 151, 174, 60, 32, 3, 142, 72, 14, 170,112, 65, 89, 175, 158, 17, 114, 62, 144, 13, 98, 66, 59, 7, 118, 48,153, 100, 134, 84, 111, 132, 127, 41, 168, 110, 102, 34, 121, 179, 148,55,

FIG. 115 is a diagram that illustrates an 18th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 115, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

37, 98, 160, 63, 18, 6, 94, 136, 8, 50, 0, 75, 65, 32, 107, 60, 108, 17,21, 156, 157, 5, 73, 66, 38, 177, 162, 130, 171, 76, 57, 126, 103, 62,120, 134, 154, 101, 143, 29, 13, 149, 16, 33, 55, 56, 159, 128, 23, 146,153, 141, 169, 49, 46, 152, 89, 155, 111, 127, 48, 14, 93, 41, 7, 78,135, 69, 123, 179, 36, 87, 27, 58, 88, 170, 125, 110, 15, 97, 178, 90,121, 173, 30, 102, 10, 80, 104, 166, 64, 4, 147, 1, 52, 45, 148, 68,158, 31, 140, 100, 85, 115, 151, 70, 39, 82, 122, 79, 12, 91, 133, 132,22, 163, 47, 19, 119, 144, 35, 25, 42, 83, 92, 26, 72, 138, 54, 124, 24,74, 118, 117, 168, 71, 109, 112, 106, 176, 175, 44, 145, 11, 9, 161, 96,77, 174, 137, 34, 84, 2, 164, 129, 43, 150, 61, 53, 20, 165, 113, 142,116, 95, 3, 28, 40, 81, 99, 139, 114, 59, 67, 172, 131, 105, 167, 51, 86

FIG. 116 is a diagram that illustrates a 19th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 116, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

58, 70, 23, 32, 26, 63, 55, 48, 35, 41, 53, 20, 38, 51, 61, 65, 44, 29,7, 2, 113, 68, 96, 104, 106, 89, 27, 0, 119, 21, 4, 49, 46, 100, 13, 36,57, 98, 102, 9, 42, 39, 33, 62, 22, 95, 101, 15, 91, 25, 93, 132, 69,87, 47, 59, 67, 124, 17, 11, 31, 43, 40, 37, 85, 50, 97, 140, 45, 92,56, 30, 34, 60, 107, 24, 52, 94, 64, 5, 71, 90, 66, 103, 88, 86, 84, 19,169, 159, 147, 126, 28, 130, 14, 162, 144, 166, 108, 153, 115, 135, 120,122, 112, 139, 151, 156, 16, 172, 164, 123, 99, 54, 136, 81, 105, 128,116, 150, 155, 76, 18, 142, 170, 175, 83, 146, 78, 109, 73, 131, 127,82, 167, 77, 110, 79, 137, 152, 3, 173, 148, 72, 158, 117, 1, 6, 12, 8,161, 74, 143, 133, 168, 171, 134, 163, 138, 121, 141, 160, 111, 10, 149,80, 75, 165, 157, 174, 129, 145, 114, 125, 154, 118, 176, 177, 178, 179

FIG. 117 is a diagram that illustrates a 20th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 117, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

40, 159, 100, 14, 88, 75, 53, 24, 157, 84, 23, 77, 140, 145, 32, 28,112, 39, 76, 50, 93, 27, 107, 25, 152, 101, 127, 5, 129, 71, 9, 21, 96,73, 35, 106, 158, 49, 136, 30, 137, 115, 139, 48, 167, 85, 74, 72, 7,110, 161, 41, 170, 147, 82, 128, 149, 33, 8, 120, 47, 68, 58, 67, 87,155, 11, 18, 103, 151, 29, 36, 83, 135, 79, 150, 97, 54, 70, 138, 156,31, 121, 34, 20, 130, 61, 57, 2, 166, 117, 15, 6, 165, 118, 98, 116,131, 109, 62, 126, 175, 22, 111, 164, 16, 133, 102, 55, 105, 64, 177,78, 37, 162, 124, 119, 19, 4, 69, 132, 65, 123, 160, 17, 52, 38, 1, 80,90, 42, 81, 104, 13, 144, 51, 114, 3, 43, 146, 163, 59, 45, 89, 122,169, 44, 94, 86, 99, 66, 171, 173, 0, 141, 148, 176, 26, 143, 178, 60,153, 142, 91, 179, 12, 168, 113, 95, 174, 56, 134, 92, 46, 108, 125, 10,172, 154, 63

FIG. 118 is a diagram that illustrates a 21st example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 118, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

143, 57, 67, 26, 134, 112, 136, 103, 13, 94, 16, 116, 169, 95, 98, 6,174, 173, 102, 15, 114, 39, 127, 78, 18, 123, 121, 4, 89, 115, 24, 108,74, 63, 175, 82, 48, 20, 104, 92, 27, 3, 33, 106, 62, 148, 154, 25, 129,69, 178, 156, 87, 83, 100, 122, 70, 93, 50, 140, 43, 125, 166, 41, 128,85, 157, 49, 86, 66, 79, 130, 133, 171, 21, 165, 126, 51, 153, 38, 142,109, 10, 65, 23, 91, 90, 73, 61, 42, 47, 131, 77, 9, 58, 96, 101, 37, 7,159, 44, 2, 170, 160, 162, 0, 137, 31, 45, 110, 144, 88, 8, 11, 40, 81,168, 135, 56, 151, 107, 105, 32, 120, 132, 1, 84, 161, 179, 72, 176, 71,145, 139, 75, 141, 97, 17, 149, 124, 80, 60, 36, 52, 164, 53, 158, 113,34, 76, 5, 111, 155, 138, 19, 35, 167, 172, 14, 147, 55, 152, 59, 64,54, 117, 146, 118, 119, 150, 29, 163, 68, 99, 46, 177, 28, 22, 30, 12

FIG. 119 is a diagram that illustrates a 22nd example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 119, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

116, 47, 155, 89, 109, 137, 103, 60, 114, 14, 148, 100, 28, 132, 129,105, 154, 7, 167, 140, 160, 30, 57, 32, 81, 3, 86, 45, 69, 147, 125, 52,20, 22, 156, 168, 17, 5, 93, 53, 61, 149, 56, 62, 112, 48, 11, 21, 166,73, 158, 104, 79, 128, 135, 126, 63, 26, 44, 97, 13, 151, 123, 41, 118,35, 131, 8, 90, 58, 134, 6, 78, 130, 82, 106, 99, 178, 102, 29, 108,120, 107, 139, 23, 85, 36, 172, 174, 138, 95, 145, 170, 122, 50, 19, 91,67, 101, 92, 179, 27, 94, 66, 171, 39, 68, 9, 59, 146, 15, 31, 38, 49,37, 64, 77, 152, 144, 72, 165, 163, 24, 1, 2, 111, 80, 124, 43, 136,127, 153, 75, 42, 113, 18, 164, 133, 142, 98, 96, 4, 51, 150, 46, 121,76, 10, 25, 176, 34, 110, 115, 143, 173, 169, 40, 65, 157, 175, 70, 33,141, 71, 119, 16, 162, 177, 12, 84, 87, 117, 0, 88, 161, 55, 54, 83, 74,159

FIG. 120 is a diagram that illustrates a 23rd example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 120, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

62, 17, 10, 25, 174, 13, 159, 14, 108, 0, 42, 57, 78, 67, 41, 132, 110,87, 77, 27, 88, 56, 8, 161, 7, 164, 171, 44, 75, 176, 145, 165, 157, 34,142, 98, 103, 52, 11, 82, 141, 116, 15, 158, 139, 120, 36, 61, 20, 112,144, 53, 128, 24, 96, 122, 114, 104, 150, 50, 51, 80, 109, 33, 5, 95,59, 16, 134, 105, 111, 21, 40, 146, 18, 133, 60, 23, 160, 106, 32, 79,55, 6, 1, 154, 117, 19, 152, 167, 166, 30, 35, 100, 74, 131, 99, 156,39, 76, 86, 43, 178, 155, 179, 177, 136, 175, 81, 64, 124, 153, 84, 163,135, 115, 125, 47, 45, 143, 72, 48, 172, 97, 85, 107, 126, 91, 129, 137,83, 118, 54, 2, 9, 58, 169, 73, 123, 4, 92, 168, 162, 94, 138, 119, 22,31, 63, 89, 90, 69, 49, 173, 28, 127, 26, 29, 101, 170, 93, 140, 147,149, 148, 66, 65, 121, 12, 71, 37, 70, 102, 46, 38, 68, 130, 3, 113, 151

FIG. 121 is a diagram that illustrates a 24th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 121, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

168, 18, 46, 131, 88, 90, 11, 89, 111, 174, 172, 38, 78, 153, 9, 80, 53,27, 44, 79, 35, 83, 171, 51, 37, 99, 95, 119, 117, 127, 112, 166, 28,123, 33, 160, 29, 6, 135, 10, 66, 69, 74, 92, 15, 109, 106, 178, 65,141, 0, 3, 154, 156, 164, 7, 45, 115, 122, 148, 110, 24, 121, 126, 23,175, 21, 113, 58, 43, 26, 143, 56, 142, 39, 147, 30, 25, 101, 145, 136,19, 4, 48, 158, 118, 133, 49, 20, 102, 14, 151, 5, 2, 72, 103, 75, 60,84, 34, 157, 169, 31, 161, 81, 70, 85, 159, 132, 41, 152, 179, 98, 144,36, 16, 87, 40, 91, 1, 130, 108, 139, 94, 97, 8, 104, 13, 150, 137, 47,73, 62, 12, 50, 61, 105, 100, 86, 146, 165, 22, 17, 57, 167, 59, 96,120, 155, 77, 162, 55, 68, 140, 134, 82, 76, 125, 32, 176, 138, 173,177, 163, 107, 170, 71, 129, 63, 93, 42, 52, 116, 149, 54, 128, 124,114, 67, 64

FIG. 122 is a diagram that illustrates a 25th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 122, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

18, 150, 165, 42, 81, 48, 63, 45, 93, 152, 25, 16, 174, 29, 47, 83, 8,60, 30, 66, 11, 113, 44, 148, 4, 155, 59, 33, 134, 99, 32, 176, 109, 72,36, 111, 106, 73, 170, 126, 64, 88, 20, 17, 172, 154, 120, 121, 139, 77,98, 43, 105, 133, 19, 41, 78, 15, 7, 145, 94, 136, 131, 163, 65, 31, 96,79, 119, 143, 10, 95, 9, 146, 14, 118, 162, 37, 97, 49, 22, 51, 127, 6,71, 132, 87, 21, 39, 38, 54, 115, 159, 161, 84, 108, 13, 102, 135, 103,156, 67, 173, 76, 75, 164, 52, 142, 69, 130, 56, 153, 74, 166, 158, 124,141, 58, 116, 85, 175, 169, 168, 147, 35, 62, 5, 123, 100, 90, 122, 101,149, 112, 140, 86, 68, 89, 125, 27, 177, 160, 0, 80, 55, 151, 53, 2, 70,167, 114, 129, 179, 138, 1, 92, 26, 50, 28, 110, 61, 82, 91, 117, 107,178, 34, 157, 137, 128, 40, 24, 57, 3, 171, 46, 104, 12, 144, 23

FIG. 123 is a diagram that illustrates a 26th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 123, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25,31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147,15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28,17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65,129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3,37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118,131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26,164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60,49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178,80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156,126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168,167, 53, 35

FIG. 124 is a diagram that illustrates a 27th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 124, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

77, 50, 109, 128, 153, 12, 48, 17, 147, 55, 173, 172, 135, 121, 99, 162,52, 40, 129, 168, 103, 87, 134, 105, 179, 10, 131, 151, 3, 26, 100, 15,123, 88, 18, 91, 54, 160, 49, 1, 76, 80, 74, 31, 47, 58, 161, 9, 16, 34,41, 21, 177, 11, 63, 6, 39, 165, 169, 125, 114, 57, 37, 67, 93, 96, 73,106, 83, 166, 24, 51, 142, 65, 43, 64, 53, 72, 156, 81, 4, 155, 33, 163,56, 150, 70, 167, 107, 112, 144, 149, 36, 32, 35, 59, 101, 29, 127, 138,176, 90, 141, 92, 170, 102, 119, 25, 75, 14, 0, 68, 20, 97, 110, 28, 89,118, 154, 126, 2, 22, 124, 85, 175, 78, 46, 152, 23, 86, 27, 79, 130,66, 45, 113, 111, 62, 61, 7, 30, 133, 108, 171, 143, 60, 178, 5, 122,44, 38, 148, 157, 84, 42, 139, 145, 8, 104, 115, 71, 137, 132, 146, 164,98, 13, 117, 174, 158, 95, 116, 140, 94, 136, 120, 82, 69, 159, 19

FIG. 125 is a diagram that illustrates a 28th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 125, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57,42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58,77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61,70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74,89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97,133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104,132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106,134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121,105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155,176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179,118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21,159

FIG. 126 is a diagram that illustrates a 29th example of the GW patternfor an LDPC code of which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 126, a sequence of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into asequence of the following bit groups.

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43,56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30,3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26,62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154,103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87,11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102,152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116,15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28,158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166,162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118,17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, 175

The first to 29th examples of the GW pattern for the LDPC code of whichthe code length N is 64 kbits can be applied to any combination of theLDPC code having a code length N of 64 kbits and an arbitrary codingrate r and an arbitrary modulation scheme (constellation).

However, in the group-wise interleave, by setting the GW pattern to beapplied to each combination of the code length N of the LDPC code, thecoding rate r of the LDPC code, and the modulation scheme(constellation), the error rate of each combination can be furtherimproved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 98, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and the QPSK, particularly,an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 99, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and the 16 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 100, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and the 64 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 101, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and the QPSK, particularly,an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 102, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 16 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 103, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 64 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 104, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and the QPSK, particularly,an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 105, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 16 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 106, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 64 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 107, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and the QPSK,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 108, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and the 16 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 109, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and the 64 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 110, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and the QPSK,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 111, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and the 16 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 112, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and the 64 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 113, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 114, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 115, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 116, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 117, for example, to thecombination of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 118, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 119, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and the 256 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 120, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 121, for example, to thecombination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 122, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 123, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 124, for example, to thecombination of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 125, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

By applying the GW pattern illustrated in FIG. 126, for example, to thecombination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and the 1024 QAM,particularly, an excellent error rate can be achieved.

FIG. 127 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 98 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 5/15) and the QPSK.

FIG. 128 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 99 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 5/15) and the 16 QAM.

FIG. 129 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 100 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 5/15) and the 64 QAM.

FIG. 130 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 101 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 7/15) and the QPSK.

FIG. 131 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 102 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 16 QAM.

FIG. 132 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 103 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 64 QAM.

FIG. 133 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 104 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) and the QPSK.

FIG. 134 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 105 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 16 QAM.

FIG. 135 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 106 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 64 QAM.

FIG. 136 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 107 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 11/15) and the QPSK.

FIG. 137 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 108 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 11/15) and the 16 QAM.

FIG. 138 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 109 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 11/15) and the 64 QAM.

FIG. 139 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 110 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 13/15) and the QPSK.

FIG. 140 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 111 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 13/15) and the 16 QAM.

FIG. 141 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 112 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 13/15) and the 64 QAM.

FIG. 142 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 113 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 5/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 143 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 114 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 144 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 115 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 145 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 116 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 146 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 117 is applied to a combination of the NERCcode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 147 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 118 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 11/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 148 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 119 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 13/15) and the 256 QAM.

FIG. 149 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 120 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 5/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 150 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 121 is applied to a combination of the ETRIcode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 151 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 122 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 7/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 152 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 123 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 153 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 124 is applied to a combination of the NERCcode of (64 k, 9/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 154 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 125 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 11/15) and the 1024 QAM.

FIG. 155 is a diagram that illustrates a BER/FER curve as a simulationresult of a simulation of measuring an error rate in a case where the GWpattern illustrated in FIG. 126 is applied to a combination of the Sonycode of (64 k, 13/15) and the 1024 QAM.

Note that FIGS. 127 to 155 illustrate BER/FER curves in a case where anAWGN channel is employed as the communication line 13 (FIG. 7) (upperdrawings) and BER/FER curves in a case where a Rayleigh (fading) channelis employed as the communication line 13 (FIG. 7) (lower drawings).

In addition, in FIGS. 127 to 155, each solid line (w bil) represents aBER/FER curve in a case where the parity interleave, the group-wiseinterleave, and the block-wise interleave are performed, and each dottedline (w/o bil) represents a BER/FER curve in a case where the parityinterleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block-wise interleave arenot performed.

As illustrated in FIGS. 127 to 155, in a case where the parityinterleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block-wise interleave areperformed, it can be checked that the BER/FER is improved, and anexcellent error rate can be achieved, compared to a case where suchinterleave is not performed.

Note that the GW patterns illustrated in FIGS. 98 to 126 also can beapplied to a constellation in which the signal point arrangementsillustrated in FIGS. 87 to 93 are symmetrically moved with respect tothe I axis or the Q axis, a constellation in which the signal pointarrangements described above are symmetrically moved with respect to theorigin, a constellation in which the signal point arrangements describedabove are rotated with the origin used at its center by an arbitraryangle, and the like in addition to the constellation of QPSK, 16 QAM, 64QAM, 256 QAM, and 1024 QAM of the signal point arrangements illustratedin FIGS. 87 to 93 described above, and effects similar to those of casewhere the GW patterns illustrated in FIGS. 87 to 93 are applied to theconstellation of QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, and 1024 QAM of thesignal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 87 to 93 can be acquired.

Furthermore, the GW pattern illustrated in FIGS. 98 to 126 also can beapplied to a constellation in which the most significant bit (MSB) andthe least significant bit (LSB) of the symbol to be associated with(allocated to) the signal point are interchanged in the signal pointarrangements illustrated in FIGS. 87 to 93 in addition to theconstellations of QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM, and 1024 QAM of thesignal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 87 to 93, and effectssimilar to those of case where the GW patterns illustrated in FIGS. 87to 93 are applied to the constellations of QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256QAM, and 1024 QAM of the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS.87 to 93 can be acquired.

<Configuration Example of Receiving Device 12>

FIG. 156 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of thereceiving device 12 illustrated in FIG. 7.

An OFDM processing unit (OFDM operation) 151 receives an OFDM signalfrom the transmitting device 11 (FIG. 7) and performs signal processingof the OFDM signal. Data that is acquired by performing the signalprocessing performed by the OFDM processing unit 151 is supplied to aframe managing unit (Frame Management) 152.

The frame managing unit 152 performs processing (frame interpretation)of a frame configured by the data supplied from the OFDM processing unit151 and respectively supplies a signal of target data acquired as aresult thereof and a signal of control data to frequency deinterleavers161 and 153.

The frequency deinterleaver 153 performs frequency deinterleave in unitsof symbols for the data supplied from the frame managing unit 152 andsupplies resultant data to a demapper 154.

The demapper 154 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding)and quadrature demodulation for the data (the data on the constellation)supplied from the frequency deinterleaver 153 on the basis of thearrangement (constellation) of the signal points determined according tothe quadrature modulation performed on the transmitting device 11 sideand supplies the data ((the likelihood of) the LDPC code) acquired as aresult thereof to the LDPC decoder 155.

The LDPC decoder 155 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code suppliedfrom the demapper 154 and supplies LDPC target data (in this case, a BCHcode) acquired as a result thereof to a BCH decoder 156.

The BCH decoder 156 performs BCH decoding of the LDPC target datasupplied from the LDPC decoder 155 and outputs control data (signaling)acquired as a result thereof.

Meanwhile, the frequency deinterleaver 161 performs frequencydeinterleave in units of symbols for the data supplied from the framemanaging unit 152 and supplies resultant data to a SISO/MISO decoder162.

The SISO/MISO decoder 162 performs time-space decoding of the datasupplied from the frequency deinterleaver 161 and supplies resultantdata to a time deinterleaver 163.

The time deinterleaver 163 performs time deinterleave in units ofsymbols for the data supplied from the SISO/MISO decoder 162 andsupplies resultant data to a demapper 164.

The demapper 164 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding)and quadrature demodulation for the data (the data on the constellation)supplied from the time deinterleaver 163 on the basis of the arrangement(constellation) of the signal points determined according to thequadrature modulation performed on the transmitting device 11 side andsupplies the data acquired as a result thereof to a bit deinterleaver165.

The bit deinterleaver 165 performs the bit deinterleave for the datasupplied from the demapper 164 and supplies (the likelihood of) the LDPCcode that is data after the bit deinterleave to an LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code suppliedfrom the bit deinterleaver 165 and supplies LDPC target data (here, aBCH code) acquired as a result thereof to a BCH decoder 167.

The BCH decoder 167 performs BCH decoding of the LDPC target datasupplied from the LDPC decoder 155 and supplies data acquired as aresult thereof to a BB descrambler 168.

The BB descrambler 168 performs BB descramble for the data supplied fromthe BCH decoder 167 and supplies data acquired as a result thereof to anull deletion unit 169.

The null deletion unit 169 deletes null inserted by the padder 112illustrated in FIG. 8 from the data supplied from the BB descrambler 168and supplies resultant data to a demultiplexer 170.

The demultiplexer 170 separates one or more streams (target data)multiplexed in the data supplied from the null deletion unit 169,performs necessary processing for the streams, and outputs processedstreams as output streams.

Note that the receiving device 12 may be configured without arrangingsome of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 156. In other words, for example,in a case where the transmitting device 11 (FIG. 8) is configuredwithout arranging the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119,the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124, thereceiving device 12 may be configured without arranging the timedeinterleaver 163, the SISO/MISO decoder 162, the frequencydeinterleaver 161, and the frequency deinterleaver 153 that are blocksrespectively corresponding to the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISOencoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120, and the frequencyinterleaver 124 of the transmitting device 11.

<Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 157 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe bit deinterleaver 165 illustrated in FIG. 156.

The bit deinterleaver 165 is configured with a block deinterleaver 54and a group-wise deinterleaver 55 and performs the (bit) deinterleave ofthe symbol bits of the symbol that is the data supplied from thedemapper 164 (FIG. 156).

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs block deinterleave(the inverse process of the block interleave) corresponding to the blockinterleave performed by the block interleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 9,in other words, the block deinterleave restoring the positions of (thelikelihood of) of the code bits of the LDPC code rearranged by the blockinterleave to the original positions for the symbol bits of the symbolsupplied from the demapper 164 as a target and supplies the LDPC codeacquired as a result thereof to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs group-wise deinterleave (theinverse process of the group-wise interleave) corresponding to thegroup-wise interleave performed by the group-wise interleaver 24illustrated in FIG. 9, in other words, group-wise deinterleave forrestoring the original sequence by rearranging the code bits of the LDPCcode of which the sequence has been changed in units of bit groups bythe group-wise interleave described above, for example, with referenceto FIG. 97 in units of bit groups for the LDPC code supplied from theblock deinterleaver 54 as a target.

Here, in a case where the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave,and the block interleave are performed for the LDPC code supplied fromthe demapper 164 to the bit deinterleaver 165, the bit deinterleaver 165can perform all of the parity deinterleave (the inverse process of theparity interleave, in other words, the parity deinterleave for restoringthe code bits of the LDPC code of which the sequence has been changed bythe parity interleave to the original sequence) corresponding to theparity interleave, the block deinterleave corresponding to the blockinterleave, and the group-wise deinterleave corresponding to thegroup-wise interleave.

However, in the bit deinterleaver 165 illustrated in FIG. 157, while theblock deinterleaver 54 that performs the block deinterleavecorresponding to the block interleave and the group-wise deinterleaver55 that performs the group-wise deinterleave corresponding to thegroup-wise interleave are arranged, the block that performs the paritydeinterleave corresponding to the parity interleave is not arranged, andthe parity deinterleave is not performed.

Accordingly, the LDPC code for which the block deinterleave and thegroup-wise deinterleave have been performed, but the parity deinterleavehas not been performed is supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 (thegroup-wise deinterleaver 55 thereof) to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code suppliedfrom the bit deinterleaver 165 by using the transformed parity checkmatrix (or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) acquired byperforming row permutation for the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) of theETRI type) acquired by performing at least the column permutationcorresponding to the parity interleave for the parity check matrix H ofthe DVB type used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115illustrated in FIG. 8 and outputs data acquired as a result thereof as adecoding result of the LDPC target data.

FIG. 158 is a flowchart that illustrates a process performed by thedemapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165, and the LDPC decoder 166illustrated in FIG. 157.

In step S111, the demapper 164 performs demapping and quadraturedemodulation for the data (the data on the constellation mapped into thesignal points) supplied from the time deinterleaver 163, and suppliesresultant data to the bit deinterleaver 165, and the process proceeds tostep S112

In step S112, the bit deinterleaver 165 performs the deinterleave (thebit deinterleave) for the data supplied from the demapper 164, and theprocess proceeds to step S113.

In other words, in step S112, in the bit deinterleaver 165, the blockdeinterleaver 54 performs block deinterleave for the data (symbol)supplied from the demapper 164 as a target and supplies the code bits ofthe LDPC code acquired as a result thereof to the group-wisedeinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs group-wise deinterleave for theLDPC code supplied from the block deinterleaver 54 as a target andsupplies (the likelihood of) the LDPC code acquired as a result thereofto the LDPC decoder 166.

In step S113, the LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPCcode supplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 by using the paritycheck matrix H used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115illustrated in FIG. 8, in other words, for example, by using thetransformed parity check matrix acquired from the parity check matrix Hand outputs the data acquired as a result thereof to the BCH decoder 167as a decoding result of the LDPC target data.

Note that, in FIG. 157, similarly to the case illustrated in FIG. 9, forthe convenience of description, while the block deinterleaver 54 thatperforms the block deinterleave and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 thatperforms the group-wise deinterleave are separately configured, theblock deinterleaver 54 and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 may beintegrally configured.

<LDPC Decoding>

The LDPC decoding performed by the LDPC decoder 166 illustrated in FIG.156 will be further described.

As described above, the LDPC decoder 166 illustrated in FIG. 156performs the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code, for which the blockdeinterleave and the group-wise deinterleave have been performed, butthe parity deinterleave has not been performed, supplied from thegroup-wise deinterleaver 55 by using the transformed parity check matrixacquired by performing at least the column permutation corresponding tothe parity interleave (or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29)acquired by performing the row permutation for the parity check matrixof the ETRI type (FIG. 27)) for the parity check matrix H of the DVBtype used for the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 illustrated inFIG. 8.

Here, LDPC decoding that can suppress an operation frequency to be in asufficiently realizable range while suppressing the circuit scale byperforming the LDPC decoding using the transformed parity check matrixhas been proposed in advance (for example, see U.S. Pat. No. 4,224,777).

Thus, first, the LDPC decoding, which has been proposed in advance,using the transformed parity check matrix will be described withreference to FIGS. 159 to 162.

FIG. 159 illustrates an example of a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode having a code length N of 90 and a coding rate of 2/3.

Note that, in FIG. 159 (and FIGS. 160 and 161 to be described later), 0is represented by a period (.).

In the parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 159, the parity matrixhas a staircase structure.

FIG. 160 illustrates a parity check matrix H′ that is acquired byperforming row permutation represented in Equation (11) and columnpermutation represented in Equation (12) for the parity check matrix Hillustrated in FIG. 159.

Row permutation:(6s+t+1)-th row→(5t+s+1)-th row   (11)

Column permutation:(6x+y+61)-th column→(5y+x+61)-th column  (12)

In Equations (11) and (12), s, t, x, and y are integers respectively inthe ranges of 0≤s<5, 0≤t<6, 0≤x<5, and 0≤t<6.

According to the row permutation represented in Equation (11),permutation is performed such that the 1st, 7th, 13th, 19th, and 25throws having a remainder of 1 acquired when being divided by 6 arerespectively replaced with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th rows, and the2nd, 8th, 14th, 20th, and 26th rows having a remainder of 2 acquiredwhen being divided by 6 are respectively replaced with the 6th, 7th,8th, 9th, and 10th rows.

In addition, according to the column permutation represented in Equation(12), permutation is performed such that the 61st, 67th, 73rd, 79th, and85th columns having a remainder of 1 acquired when being divided by 6are respectively replaced with the 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, and 65thcolumns, and the 62nd, 68th, 74th, 80th, and 86th columns having aremainder of 2 acquired when being divided by 6 are respectivelyreplaced with the 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, and 70th columns for the 61stand following columns (parity matrix).

In this way, a matrix that is acquired by performing the permutation ofthe rows and the columns for the parity check matrix H illustrated inFIG. 159 is a parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 160.

In this case, even when the row permutation of the parity check matrix His performed, the sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code is notinfluenced.

In addition, the column permutation represented in Equation (12)corresponds to the above-described parity interleave for interleavingthe (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th codebit when the information length K is 60, the unit size P is 5, and thedivisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M (here, 30) is 6.

Accordingly, the parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 160 is atransformed parity check matrix acquired by performing at least columnpermutation replacing the (K+qx+y+1)-th column of the parity checkmatrix H illustrated in FIG. 159 (hereinafter, referred to as anoriginal parity check matrix as is appropriate) with the (K+Py+x+1)-thcolumn.

When the parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 160 is multiplied bya result acquired by performing the same permutation as Equation (12)for the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 159,a zero vector is output. In other words, when a row vector acquired byperforming the column permutation represented in Equation (12) for a rowvector c as the LDPC code (one code word) of the original parity checkmatrix H is represented as c′, Hc^(T) becomes the zero vector on thebasis of the property of the parity check matrix. Accordingly, it isapparent that H′c′^(T) becomes the zero vector.

Accordingly, the transformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG.160 is a parity check matrix of the LDPC code c′ that is acquired byperforming the column permutation represented in Equation (12) for theLDPC code c of the original parity check matrix H.

Therefore, by performing the column permutation represented in Equation(12) for the LDPC code c of the original parity check matrix H, decodingthe LDPC code c′ after the column permutation (LDPC decoding) using thetransformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 160, andperforming reverse permutation of the column permutation represented inEquation (12) for a result of the decoding, a decoding result similar tothat in a case where the LDPC code of the original parity check matrix His decoded using the parity check matrix H can be acquired.

FIG. 161 is a diagram that illustrates the transformed parity checkmatrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 160 with being spaced in units of 5×5matrixes.

In FIG. 161, the transformed parity check matrix H′ is represented by acombination of a 5×5 (=P×P) unit matrix that has a unit size P, a matrix(hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a quasi unit matrix) acquiredby setting one or more “1”s of the unit matrix to zero, a matrix(hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a shifted matrix) acquired bycyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, a sum(hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a sum matrix) of two or morematrixes of the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, and the shiftedmatrix, and a 5×5 zero matrix.

The transformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 can beregarded as being configured using the 5×5 unit matrix, the quasi unitmatrix, the shifted matrix, the sum matrix, and the zero matrix.Therefore, hereinafter, the 5×5 matrixes (the unit matrix, the quasiunit matrix, the shifted matrix, the sum matrix, and the zero matrix)that constitute the transformed parity check matrix H′ will beappropriately referred to as constitutive matrixes.

For decoding the LDPC code of the parity check matrix represented by theP×P constitutive matrixes, an architecture in which P check nodeoperations and variable node operations are simultaneously performed canbe used.

FIG. 162 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofa decoding device that performs such decoding.

In other words, FIG. 162 illustrates the configuration example of thedecoding device that performs decoding of the LDPC code by using thetransformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 acquired byperforming at least the column permutation represented in Equation (12)for the original parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 159.

The decoding device illustrated in FIG. 162 includes a branch datastoring memory 300 that includes 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a selector 301that selects the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a check node calculating unit302, two cyclic shift circuits 303 and 308, a branch data storing memory304 that includes 18 FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a selector 305 that selectsthe FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a reception data memory 306 that storesreception data, a variable node calculating unit 307, a decoding wordcalculating unit 309, a reception data rearranging unit 310, and adecoded data rearranging unit 311.

First, a method of storing data in the branch data storing memories 300and 304 will be described.

The branch data storing memory 300 includes the 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆that correspond to a number acquired by dividing the number “30” of rowsof the transformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 by thenumber “5” of rows (the unit size P) of the constitutive matrix. TheFIFO 300, (y=1, 2, . . . , 6) includes a plurality of stages of storageareas. For the storage area of each stage, messages corresponding tofive branches that correspond to the number of rows and the number ofcolumns (the unit size P) of the constitutive matrix can besimultaneously read or written. The number of stages of the storageareas of the FIFO 300 _(y) is 9 that is a maximum number of the number(Hamming weight) of “1” of the transformed parity check matrixillustrated in FIG. 161 in the row direction.

In the FIFO 300 ₁, data (messages v_(i) from variable nodes)corresponding to positions of “1”s in the first to fifth rows of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 is stored inthe form of filling each row in a horizontal direction (a form in which“0” is ignored). In other words, when a j-th row and an i-th column arerepresented as (j, i), data corresponding to positions of “1”s in a 5×5unit matrix of (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformed parity check matrixH′ is stored in the storage area of the first stage of the FIFO 300 ₁.In the storage area of the second stage, data corresponding to positionsof “1” in a shifted matrix (shifted matrix acquired by cyclicallyshifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 3) of (1, 21) to (5,25) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored. Similarly, inthe storage areas of the third to eighth stages, data is stored inassociation with the transformed parity check matrix H′. In the storagearea of the ninth stage, data corresponding to the positions of “1”s ina shifted matrix (a shifted matrix acquired by replacing “1” included inthe first row of the 5×5 unit matrix with “0” and cyclically shiftingthe unit matrix to the left side by 1) of (1, 86) to (5, 90) of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.

In the FIFO 300 ₂, data corresponding to the positions of “1”s in thesixth to tenth rows of the transformed parity check matrix H′illustrated in FIG. 161 is stored. In other words, in the storage areaof the first stage of the FIFO 300 ₂, data corresponding to thepositions of “1”s in a first shifted matrix constituting a sum matrix (asum matrix that is a sum of the first shifted matrix acquired bycyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by one and asecond shifted matrix acquired by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unitmatrix to the right side by two) of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformedparity check matrix H′ is stored. In addition, in the storage area ofthe second stage, data corresponding to the positions of “1”s in thesecond shifted matrix constituting the sum matrix of (6, 1) to (10, 5)of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.

In other words, for a constitutive matrix of which the weight is two ormore, when the constitutive matrix is represented by a sum of aplurality of a P×P unit matrix of which the weight is 1, a quasi unitmatrix acquired by setting one or more elements of “1”s in the unitmatrix to “0”, and a shifted matrix acquired by cyclically shifting theunit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, data (messages corresponding tobranches belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, or theshifted matrix) corresponding to the positions of “1”s in the unitmatrix of the weight of 1, the quasi unit matrix, or the shifted matrixis stored at the same address (the same FIFO among the FIFOs 300 ₁ to300 ₆).

Subsequently, also in the storage areas of the third to ninth stages,data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrixH′.

Also in the FIFOs 300 ₃ to 300 ₆, data is similarly stored inassociation with the transformed parity check matrix H′.

The branch data storing memory 304 includes 18 FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈that correspond to a number acquired by dividing the number “90” ofcolumns of the transformed parity check matrix H′ by 5 that is thenumber of columns (the unit size P) of the constitutive matrix. The FIFO304 _(x) (here, x=1, 2, . . . , 18) includes a plurality of stages ofstorage areas. For the storage area of each stage, messagescorresponding to five branches corresponding to the number of rows andthe number of columns (the unit size P) of the constitutive matrix canbe simultaneously read or written.

In the FIFO 304 ₁, data (messages u_(j) from check nodes) correspondingto the positions of “1”s in the first to fifth columns of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 is stored inthe form of filling each column in the vertical direction (a form inwhich “0” is ignored). In other words, data corresponding to thepositions of “1”s in the 5×5 unit matrix of (1, 1) to (5, 5) of thetransformed parity check matrix H′ is stored in the storage area of thefirst stage of the FIFO 304 ₁. In the storage area of the second stage,data corresponding to the positions of “1”s in the first shifted matrixconstituting a sum matrix (a sum matrix that is a sum of the firstshifted matrix acquired by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix tothe right side by one and the second shifted matrix acquired bycyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by two) of(6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.In addition, in the storage area of the third stage, data correspondingto the positions of “1” in the second shifted matrix constituting thesum matrix of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrixH′ is stored.

In other words, for a constitutive matrix of which the weight is two ormore, when the constitutive matrix is represented by a sum of aplurality of a P×P unit matrix of which the weight is 1, a quasi unitmatrix acquired by setting one or more elements of “1”s in the unitmatrix to “0”, and a shifted matrix acquired by cyclically shifting theunit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, data (messages corresponding tobranches belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, or theshifted matrix) corresponding to the positions of “1”s in the unitmatrix having a weight of 1, the quasi unit matrix, or the shiftedmatrix is stored at the same address (the same FIFO among the FIFOs 304₁ to 304 ₁₈).

Subsequently, also in the storage areas of the fourth and fifth stages,data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrixH′ The number of stages of the storage areas of the FIFO 304 ₁ is 5 thatis a maximum number of the number (Hamming weight) of “1”s in the rowdirection in the first to fifth columns of the transformed parity checkmatrix H′.

Similarly, in the FIFOs 304 ₂ and 304 ₃, data is stored in associationwith the transformed parity check matrix H′, and each length (the numberof stages) is 5. Similarly, in the FIFOs 304 ₄ to 304 ₁₂, data is storedin association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, and eachlength is 3. Similarly, in the FIFOs 304 ₁₃ to 304 ₁₈, data is stored inassociation with the transformed parity check matrix H′, and each lengthis 2.

Next, an operation of the decoding device illustrated in FIG. 162 willbe described.

The branch data storing memory 300 includes the 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆and, according to information (matrix data) D312 representing rows ofthe transformed parity check matrix H′ illustrated in FIG. 161 to whichfive messages D311 supplied from a cyclic shift circuit 308 of aprevious stage belongs, selects a FIFO storing data from among the FIFOs300 ₁ to 300 ₆ and sequentially stores the five messages D311collectively in the selected FIFO. In order to read the data, the branchdata storing memory 300 sequentially reads the five messages D300 ₁ fromthe FIFO 3001 and supplies the read messages to the selector 301 of anext stage. After reading of the messages from the FIFO 300 ₁ ends, thebranch data storing memory 300 sequentially reads messages also from theFIFOs 300 ₂ to 300 ₆ and supplies the read messages to the selector 301.

The selector 301 selects the five messages supplied from the FIFO fromwhich data is currently read from among the FIFOs 3001 to 300 ₆,according to a select signal D301, and supplies the selected messages asmessages D302 to the check node calculating unit 302.

The check node calculating unit 302 includes five check node calculators3021 to 302 ₅, performs a check node operation according to Equation (7)by using the messages D302 (D302 ₁ to D302 ₅) (messages v₁ representedin Equation (7)) supplied through the selector 301, and supplies fivemessages D303 (D303 ₁ to D303 ₅) (messages u_(j) of Equation (7))acquired as a result of the check node operation to a cyclic shiftcircuit 303.

The cyclic shift circuit 303 cyclically shifts the five messages D303 ₁to D303 ₅ acquired by the check node calculating unit 302 on the basisof information (matrix data) D305 representing the number of cyclicshifts of the unit matrix (or the quasi unit matrix) that is the originin the transformed parity check matrix H′ performed in a correspondingbranch and supplies a result thereof as messages D304 to the branch datastoring memory 304.

The branch data storing memory 304 includes eighteen FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304₁₈, according to information D305 representing rows of the transformedparity check matrix H′ to which five messages D304 supplied from thecyclic shift circuit 303 of a previous stage belongs, selects a FIFOstoring data from among the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, and sequentiallystores the five messages D304 collectively in the selected FIFO. Inorder to read the data, the branch data storing memory 304 sequentiallyreads the five messages D306 ₁ from the FIFO 304 ₁ and supplies the readmessages to the selector 305 of a next stage. After reading of the datafrom the FIFO 304 ₁ ends, the branch data storing memory 304sequentially reads messages also from the FIFOs 304 ₂ to 304 ₁₈ andsupplies the read messages to the selector 305.

The selector 305 selects the five messages supplied from the FIFO fromwhich data is currently read from among the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈ inaccordance with a select signal D307 and supplies the selected messagesas messages D308 to the variable node calculating unit 307 and thedecoding word calculating unit 309.

Meanwhile, the reception data rearranging unit 310 rearranges the LDPCcode D313, which corresponds to the parity check matrix H illustrated inFIG. 159, received through the communication line 13 by performing thecolumn permutation represented in Equation (12) and supplies therearranged LDPC code as reception data D314 to the reception data memory306. The reception data memory 306 calculates a reception LLR (LogLikelihood Ratio) from the reception data D314 supplied from thereception data rearranging unit 310, stores the reception LLR, collectsfive reception LLRs, and supplies the reception LLRs as reception valuesD309 to the variable node calculating unit 307 and the decoding wordcalculating unit 309.

The variable node calculating unit 307 includes five variable nodecalculators 307 ₁ to 307 ₅, performs the variable node operationaccording to Equation (1) by using the messages D308 (D308 ₁ to D308 ₅)(messages u_(j) represented in Equation (1)) supplied through theselector 305 and the five reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i)represented in Equation (1)) supplied from the reception data memory306, and supplies messages D310 (D310 ₁ to D310 ₅) (message v₁represented in Equation (1)) acquired as an operation result to thecyclic shift circuit 308.

The cyclic shift circuit 308 cyclically shifts the messages D310 ₁ toD310 ₅ calculated by the variable node calculating unit 307 on the basisof information representing the number of cyclic shifts of the unitmatrix (or the quasi unit matrix) that is the origin in the transformedparity check matrix H′ performed in a corresponding branch, and suppliesa result thereof as messages D311 to the branch data storing memory 300.

By circulating the above operation in one cycle, decoding (the variablenode operation and the check node operation) of the LDPC code can beperformed once. After decoding the LDPC code a predetermined number oftimes, the decoding device illustrated in FIG. 162 acquires a finaldecoding result in the decoding word calculating unit 309 and thedecoded data rearranging unit 311 and outputs the final decoding result.

In other words, the decoding word calculating unit 309 includes fivedecoding word calculators 309 ₁ to 309 ₅. The decoding word calculatingunit 309 calculates a decoding result (decoding word) on the basis ofEquation (5) as a final stage of a plurality of number of times ofdecoding by using the five messages D308 (D308 ₁ to D308 ₅) (messagesu_(j) represented in Equation (5)) output by the selector 305 and thefive reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i) represented inEquation (5)) supplied from the reception data memory 306 and suppliesdecoded data D315 acquired as a result thereof to the decoded datarearranging unit 311.

The decoded data rearranging unit 311 rearranges the order by performingreverse permutation of the column permutation represented in Equation(12) for the decoded data D315 supplied from the decoding wordcalculating unit 309 as a target and outputs the rearranged decoded dataas a final decoding result D316.

As above, by performing one or both of row permutation and columnpermutation for the parity check matrix (original parity check matrix)and converting the parity check matrix into a parity check matrix(transformed parity check matrix) that can be represented by acombination of a P×P unit matrix, a quasi unit matrix acquired bysetting one or more elements of “1” to “0”, a shifted matrix acquired bycyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, a summatrix that is the sum of a plurality of unit matrixes, the quasi unitmatrixes, and the shifted matrixes, and a P×P zero matrix, in otherwords, a parity check matrix (transformed parity check matrix) that canbe represented by a combination of constitutive matrixes, as for LDPCcode decoding, an architecture can be employed which simultaneouslyperforms P check node operations and variable node operations, wherein Pis smaller than the number of rows or the number of columns of theparity check matrix. In case of employing the architecturesimultaneously performing P node operations (the (check node operationsand the variable node operations) wherein P is a number less than thenumber of rows and the number of columns of the parity check matrix,compared to a case where the node operations corresponding to the samenumber as the number of rows and the number of columns of the paritycheck matrix are simultaneously performed, the operation frequency canbe suppressed to be in a realizable range, and many repetitive decodingprocesses can be performed.

The LDPC decoder 166 that configures the receiving device 12 illustratedin FIG. 156, for example, performs the LDPC decoding by simultaneouslyperforming P check node operations and variable node operations,similarly to the decoding device illustrated in FIG. 162.

In other words, for the simplification of description, in a case wherethe parity check matrix of the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115configuring the transmitting device 11 illustrated in FIG. 8 is theparity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 159 in which the parity matrixhas a staircase structure, in the parity interleaver 23 of thetransmitting device 11, the parity interleave for interleaving the(K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bitis performed in a state in which the information length K is set to 60,the unit size P is set to 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the paritylength M is set to 6.

Since the parity interleave, as described above, corresponds to thecolumn permutation represented in Equation (12), the column permutationrepresented in Equation (12) does not need to be performed in the LDPCdecoder 166.

For this reason, in the receiving device 12 illustrated in FIG. 156, asdescribed above, the LDPC code for which the parity deinterleave has notbeen performed, in other words, the LDPC code in a state in which thecolumn permutation represented in Equation (12) is performed is suppliedfrom the group-wise deinterleaver 55 to the LDPC decoder 166. The LDPCdecoder 166 performs a similar process as that of the decoding deviceillustrated in FIG. 162 except that the column permutation representedin Equation (12) is not performed.

In other words, FIG. 163 illustrates a configuration example of the LDPCdecoder 166 illustrated in FIG. 156.

In FIG. 163, the LDPC decoder 166 has a similar configuration as thedecoding device illustrated in FIG. 162 except that the reception datarearranging unit 310 illustrated in FIG. 162 is not arranged andperforms a similar process as that of the decoding device illustrated inFIG. 162 except that the column permutation represented in Equation (12)is not performed, and thus, description thereof will not be presented.

As described above, since the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured withoutarranging the reception data rearranging unit 310, the scale thereof canbe decreased to be less than that of the decoding device illustrated inFIG. 162.

Note that, in FIGS. 159 to 163, for the simplification of description,while the code length N of the LDPC code is set to 90, the informationlength K is set to 60, the unit size (the number of rows and the numberof columns of the constitutive matrix) P is set to 5, and the divisor q(=M/P) of the parity length M is set to 6, the code length N, theinformation length K, the unit size P, and the divisor q (=M/P) are notlimited to the values described above.

In other words, in the transmitting device 11 illustrated in FIG. 8, theLDPC encoder 115 outputs the LDPC code in which the code length N is setto 64800, 16200, or the like, the information length K is set to N−Pq(=N−M), the unit size P is set to 360, and the divisor q is set to M/P.However, the LDPC decoder 166 illustrated in FIG. 163 can be applied toa case where the LDPC decoding is performed by simultaneously performingP check node operations and variable node operations for the LDPC codeas a target.

In addition, in a case where the parity portion of the decoding resultis unnecessary, and only the information bits of the decoding result areoutput after the decoding of the LDPC code by the LDPC decoder 166, theLDPC decoder 166 may be configured without the decoded data rearrangingunit 311.

<Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 54>

FIG. 164 is a block diagram that illustrates a configuration example ofthe block deinterleaver 54 illustrated in FIG. 157.

The block deinterleaver 54 has a configuration similar to the blockinterleaver 25 described above with reference to FIG. 94.

Thus, the block deinterleaver 54 includes the storage area called thepart 1 and the storage area called the part 2, and each of the parts 1and 2 is configured such that C columns as storage areas, which areequal in number to the number m of bits of the symbol, each storing onebit in the row direction and storing a predetermined number of bits inthe column direction are arranged in the row direction.

The block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleave by writingand reading the LDPC code for the parts 1 and 2.

However, in the block deinterleave, the writing of the LDPC code(forming the symbol) is performed in the order in which the LDPC code isread by the block interleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 94.

In addition, in the block deinterleave, the reading of the LDPC code isperformed in the order in which the LDPC code is written by the blockinterleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 94.

In other words, in the block interleave performed by the blockinterleaver 25 illustrated in FIG. 94, while the LDPC code is writteninto the parts 1 and 2 in the column direction and is read from theparts 1 and 2 in the row direction, in the block deinterleave performedby the block deinterleaver 54 illustrated in FIG. 164, the LDPC code iswritten into the parts 1 and 2 in the row direction and is read from theparts 1 and 2 in the column direction.

<Another Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 165 is a block diagram that illustrates another configurationexample of the bit deinterleaver 165 illustrated in FIG. 156.

Note that, in the drawings, portions that correspond to the caseillustrated in FIG. 157 are denoted using the same reference numerals,and, hereinafter, description thereof will not be presented as isappropriate.

In other words, the bit deinterleaver 165 illustrated in FIG. 165 has asimilar configuration as that of the case illustrated in FIG. 157 exceptthat a parity deinterleaver 1011 is newly arranged.

In the case illustrated in FIG. 165, the bit deinterleaver 165 isconfigured by a block deinterleaver 54, a group-wise deinterleaver 55,and a parity deinterleaver 1011 and performs bit deinterleave for thecode bits of the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 164.

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs block deinterleave(the inverse process of the block interleave) corresponding to the blockinterleave performed by the block interleaver 25 of the transmittingdevice 11, in other words, block deinterleave for restoring thepositions of the code bits rearranged by the block interleave to theoriginal positions for the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 164 as atarget and supplies the LDPC code acquired as a result thereof to thegroup-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs group-wise deinterleavecorresponding to the group-wise interleave as the rearrangement processperformed by the group-wise interleaver 24 of the transmitting device 11for the LDPC code supplied from the block deinterleaver 54 as a target.

The LDPC code that is acquired as a result of the group-wisedeinterleave is supplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 to theparity deinterleaver 1011.

The parity deinterleaver 1011 performs the parity deinterleave (reverseprocessing of the parity interleave) corresponding to the parityinterleave performed by the parity interleaver 23 of the transmittingdevice 11, in other words, the parity deinterleave for restoring thesequence of the code bits of the LDPC code of which the sequence hasbeen changed by the parity interleave to the original sequence for thecode bits after the group-wise deinterleave performed by the group-wisedeinterleaver 55 as a target.

The LDPC code that is acquired as a result of the parity deinterleave issupplied from the parity deinterleaver 1011 to the LDPC decoder 166.

Therefore, in the bit deinterleaver 165 illustrated in FIG. 165, theLDPC code for which the block deinterleave, the group-wise deinterleave,and the parity deinterleave are performed, in other words, the LDPC codethat is acquired by the LDPC coding according to the parity check matrixH is supplied to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code suppliedfrom the bit deinterleaver 165 by using the parity check matrix H usedfor the LDPC coding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device11. In other words, the LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding ofthe LDPC code supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 using the paritycheck matrix H (of the DVB type) used for the LDPC coding by the LDPCencoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 or the transformed paritycheck matrix acquired by performing at least the column permutationcorresponding to the parity interleave for the parity check matrix H(for the ETRI type, the parity check matrix (FIG. 28) acquired byperforming the column permutation for the parity check matrix (FIG. 27)used for the LDPC coding or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG.29) acquired by performing the row permutation for the parity checkmatrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC coding).

In the case illustrated in FIG. 165, since the LDPC code that isacquired by the LDPC coding according to the parity check matrix H issupplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 (the parity deinterleaver 1011thereof) to the LDPC decoder 166, in a case where the LDPC decoding ofthe LDPC code is performed using the parity check matrix H (of the DVBtype) used by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 forperforming the LDPC coding (for the ETRI type, the parity check matrix(FIG. 28) acquired by performing the column permutation for the paritycheck matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC coding), the LDPC decoder 166,for example, can be configured by a decoding device performing the LDPCdecoding according to a full serial decoding scheme for sequentiallyperforming operations of messages (a check node message and a variablenode message) for each node or a decoding device performing the LDPCdecoding according to a full parallel decoding scheme for simultaneously(in parallel) performing operations of messages for all the nodes.

In addition, in the LDPC decoder 166, in a case where the LDPC decodingof the LDPC code is performed using the transformed parity check matrixacquired by performing at least the column permutation corresponding tothe parity interleave for the parity check matrix H (of the DVB type)used by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 forperforming the LDPC coding (for the ETRI type, the transformed paritycheck matrix (FIG. 29) acquired by performing the row permutation forthe parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC coding), the LDPCdecoder 166 can be configured by a decoding device that is a decodingdevice having an architecture simultaneously performing P (or a divisorof P other than 1) check node operations and variable node operationsand the decoding device (FIG. 162) including the reception datarearranging unit 310 that rearranges the code bits of the LDPC code byperforming a similar column permutation as the column permutation(parity interleave) for acquiring the transformed parity check matrixfor the LDPC code.

Note that, in the case illustrated in FIG. 165, for the convenience ofdescription, while the block deinterleaver 54 that performs the blockdeinterleave, the group-wise deinterleaver 55 that performs thegroup-wise deinterleave, and the parity deinterleaver 1011 that performsthe parity deinterleave are separately configured, two or more of theblock deinterleaver 54, the group-wise deinterleaver 55, and the paritydeinterleaver 1011 may be configured integrally, similarly to the parityinterleaver 23, the group-wise interleaver 24, and the block interleaver25 of the transmitting device 11.

<Configuration Example of Reception System>

FIG. 166 is a block diagram illustrating a first configuration exampleof a reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

In FIG. 166, the reception system includes an acquiring unit 1101, atransmission line decoding processing unit 1102, and an informationsource decoding processing unit 1103.

The acquiring unit 1101 acquires a signal including an LDPC codeacquired by performing at least LDPC coding for LDPC target data such asvideo data or audio data of a program, for example, through atransmission line (communication line) not illustrated in the drawingssuch as terrestrial digital broadcasting, satellite digitalbroadcasting, a CATV network, the Internet, or other networks andsupplies the acquired signal to the transmission line decodingprocessing unit 1102.

Here, in a case where the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101,for example, is broadcasted from a broadcasting station through a groundwave, a satellite wave, a Cable Television (CATV) network, or the like,the acquiring unit 1101 is configured by a tuner, a Set Top Box (STB),and the like. On the other hand, in a case where the signal acquired bythe acquiring unit 1101, for example, is transmitted from a web serverthrough multicasting like an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), theacquiring unit 1101, for example, is configured by a network Interface(I/F) such as a Network Interface Card (NIC).

The transmission line decoding processing unit 1102 corresponds to thereceiving device 12. The transmission line decoding processing unit 1102performs transmission line decoding processing including at leastprocessing for correcting an error generated in a transmission line forthe signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through the transmissionline and supplies a signal acquired as a result thereof to theinformation source decoding processing unit 1103.

In other words, the signal that is acquired by the acquiring unit 1101through the transmission line is a signal that is acquired by performingat least error correction coding for correcting an error generated inthe transmission line. The transmission line decoding processing unit1102 performs transmission line decoding processing such as errorcorrection processing for such a signal.

Here, examples of the error correction coding include LDPC coding andBCH coding. Here, as the error correction coding, at least the LDPCcoding is performed.

In addition, the transmission line decoding processing may includedemodulation of a modulation signal or the like.

The information source decoding processing unit 1103 performsinformation source decoding processing including at least processing forextending compressed information to original information for the signalfor which the transmission line decoding processing has been performed.

In other words, compression coding that compresses information may beperformed for the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through thetransmission line so as to decrease a data amount of a video or an audioas information. In such a case, the information source decodingprocessing unit 1103 performs the information source decoding processingsuch as the processing (extension processing) for extending thecompressed information to the original information for the signal forwhich the transmission line decoding processing has been performed.

Note that, in a case where the compression coding has not been performedfor the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through thetransmission line, the processing for extending the compressedinformation to the original information is not performed by theinformation source decoding processing unit 1103.

In this case, as the extension processing, for example, there is MPEGdecoding. In the transmission line decoding processing, in addition tothe extension processing, descramble or the like may be included.

In the reception system configured as described above, in the acquiringunit 1101, for example, a signal for which the compression coding suchas the MPEG coding and the error correction coding such as the LDPCcoding have been performed for data such as a video or an audio isacquired through the transmission line and is supplied to thetransmission line decoding processing unit 1102.

In the transmission line decoding processing unit 1102, for example, asimilar processing as is performed by the receiving device 12 and thelike are performed as the transmission line decoding processing for thesignal supplied from the acquiring unit 1101, and a signal acquired as aresult thereof is supplied to the information source decoding processingunit 1103.

In the information source decoding processing unit 1103, the informationsource decoding processing such as the MPEG decoding is performed forthe signal supplied from the transmission line decoding processing unit1102, and a video or an audio acquired as a result thereof is output.

The reception system illustrated in FIG. 166 as above can be applied toa television tuner that receives television broadcasting as digitalbroadcasting.

Note that each of the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission linedecoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decodingprocessing unit 1103 can be configured as one independent device(hardware (Integrated Circuit (IC) or the like) or software module).

In addition, regarding the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission linedecoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decodingprocessing unit 1103, a set of the acquiring unit 1101 and thetransmission line decoding processing unit 1102, a set of thetransmission line decoding processing unit 1102 and the informationsource decoding processing unit 1103, or a set of the acquiring unit1101, the transmission line decoding processing unit 1102, and theinformation source decoding processing unit 1103 may be configured asone independent device.

FIG. 167 is a block diagram that illustrates a second configurationexample of the reception system to which the receiving device 12 can beapplied.

Note that, in the drawings, portions that correspond to those of thecase illustrated in FIG. 166 are denoted using the same referencenumerals, and hereinafter, description thereof will not be presented asis appropriate.

The reception system illustrated in FIG. 167 is common to the caseillustrated in FIG. 166 in that the acquiring unit 1101, thetransmission line decoding processing unit 1102, and the informationsource decoding processing unit 1103 are included but is different fromthe case illustrated in FIG. 166 in that an output unit 1111 is newlyarranged.

The output unit 1111 is a display device displaying a video or a speakeroutputting an audio and outputs a video or an audio as a signal outputfrom the information source decoding processing unit 1103. In otherwords, the output unit 1111 displays the video or outputs the audio.

The reception system illustrated in FIG. 167 described above, forexample, can be applied to a TV (television receiver) receivingtelevision broadcasting as digital broadcasting, a radio receiverreceiving radio broadcasting, or the like.

Note that, in a case where the compression coding is not performed forthe signal acquired in the acquiring unit 1101, the signal that isoutput by the transmission line decoding processing unit 1102 issupplied to the output unit 1111.

FIG. 168 is a block diagram that illustrates a third configurationexample of the reception system to which the receiving device 12 can beapplied.

Note that, in the drawings, portions that correspond to those of thecase illustrated in FIG. 166 are denoted using the same referencenumerals, and, hereinafter, description thereof will not be presented asis appropriate.

The reception system illustrated in FIG. 168 is common to the caseillustrated in FIG. 166 in that the acquiring unit 1101 and thetransmission line decoding processing unit 1102 are arranged.

However, the reception system illustrated in FIG. 168 is different fromthe case illustrated in FIG. 166 in that the information source decodingprocessing unit 1103 is not arranged, but a recording unit 1121 is newlyarranged.

The recording unit 1121 records (stores) a signal (for example, TSpackets of TS of MPEG) output by the transmission line decodingprocessing unit 1102 on recording (storage) media such as an opticaldisk, a hard disk (magnetic disk), and a flash memory.

The reception system illustrated in FIG. 168 described above can beapplied to a recorder that records television broadcasting and the like.

Note that, in FIG. 168, the reception system is configured by providingthe information source decoding processing unit 1103 and can record thesignal acquired by performing the information source decoding processingby the information source decoding processing unit 1103, in other words,the image or the sound acquired by decoding, by the recording unit 1121.

<Computer According to Embodiment>

A series of the processes described above can be performed either byhardware or by software. In a case where the series of the processes isperformed by software, a program configuring the software is installedto a general-purpose computer or the like.

FIG. 169 is a diagram that illustrates an example of the configurationof a computer according to an embodiment to which the program executingthe series of processes described above is installed.

The program may be recorded in a hard disk 705 or a ROM 703 as arecording medium built in the computer in advance.

Alternatively or additionally, the program may be stored (recorded)temporarily or perpetually on a removable recording medium 711 such as aflexible disk, a Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), a MagnetoOptical (MO) disk, a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), a magnetic disk, or asemiconductor memory. Such a removable recording medium 711 may beprovided as so-called package software.

Note that, instead of installing the program to the computer from theremovable recording medium 711 as described above, it may be configuredsuch that the program is transmitted in a wireless manner from adownload site to the computer through a digital broadcasting satelliteor is transmitted to the computer in a wired manner through a networksuch as a local area network (LAN) or the Internet, and the computerreceives the transmitted program using a communication unit 708 andinstalls the program to a built-in hard disk 705.

The computer has a central processing unit (CPU) 702 built therein, andan input/output interface 710 is connected to the CPU 702 through a bus701. When an instruction is input from a user through the input/outputinterface 710 by operating an input unit 707 configured by a keyboard, amouse, a microphone, and the like, the CPU 702 executes a program thatis stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM) 703 in accordance with theinstruction. Alternatively, the CPU 702 loads a program that is storedin the hard disk 705, a program that is transmitted from a satellite ora network, is received by the communication unit 708, and is installedto the hard disk 705, or a program that is read from the removablerecording medium 711 loaded into a drive 709 and is installed to thehard disk 705 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 704 and executes theprogram. Accordingly, the CPU 702 performs the process according to theflowchart described above or the process performed using theconfiguration illustrated in the block diagram described above. Then,the CPU 702, for example, outputs a result of the process from an outputunit 706 configured by a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a speaker, andthe like through the input/output interface 710, transmits the resultfrom the communication unit 708, or records the result on the hard disk705 as is necessary.

Here, in this specification, the processing step describing a programcausing a computer to perform various processes does not need to beperformed necessarily in a time series in accordance with the sequencedescribed in the flowchart but also includes a process (for example, aparallel process or a process using an object) that is performed in aparallel manner or in an individual manner.

In addition, the program may be processed by one computer or may beprocessed by a plurality of computers in a distributed manner.Furthermore, the program may be transmitted to a remote computer and beexecuted.

Note that embodiments of the present technology are not limited to theembodiments described above, but various changes can be made therein ina range not departing from the concept of the present technology.

In other words, for example, the new LDPC code (the parity check matrixinitial value table thereof) described above may be used when thecommunication line 13 (FIG. 7) is a satellite channel, a terrestrialwave, a cable (wired line) or any other communication channel.Furthermore, the new LDPC code can be used also for data transmissionother than digital broadcasting.

In addition, the GW pattern described above can be applied to a codeother than the new LDPC code. Furthermore, the modulation scheme towhich the GW pattern described above is applied is not limited to theQPSK, the 16 QAM, the 64 QAM, the 256 QAM, and the 1024 QAM.

Note that the effects described in this specification are merelyexamples but are not for the purposes of limitation, and any additionaleffect may be present.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

-   11 Transmitting device-   12 Receiving device-   23 Parity interleaver-   24 Group-wise interleaver-   Block interleaver-   54 Block deinterleaver-   55 Group-wise deinterleaver-   111 Mode adaptation/multiplexer-   112 Padder-   113 BB scrambler-   114 BCH encoder-   115 LDPC encoder-   116 Bit interleaver-   117 Mapper-   118 Time interleaver-   119 SISO/MISO encoder-   120 Frequency interleaver-   121 BCH encoder-   122 LDPC encoder-   123 Mapper-   124 Frequency interleaver-   131 Frame builder/resource allocation unit-   132 OFDM generating unit-   151 OFDM processing unit-   152 Frame managing unit-   153 Frequency deinterleaver-   154 Demapper-   155 LDPC decoder-   156 BCH decoder-   161 Frequency deinterleaver-   162 SISO/MISO decoder-   163 Time deinterleaver-   164 Demapper-   165 Bit deinterleaver-   166 LDPC decoder-   167 BCH decoder-   168 BB descrambler-   169 Null deletion unit-   170 Demultiplexer-   300 Branch data storing memory-   301 Selector-   302 Check node calculating unit-   303 Cyclic shift circuit-   304 Branch data storing memory-   305 Selector-   306 Reception data memory-   307 Variable node calculating unit-   308 Cyclic shift circuit-   309 Decoding word calculating unit-   310 Reception data rearranging unit-   311 Decoded data rearranging unit-   601 Coding processing unit-   602 Storage unit-   611 Coding rate setting unit-   612 Initial value table reading unit-   613 Parity check matrix generating unit-   614 Information bit reading unit-   615 Coding parity calculating unit-   616 Control unit-   701 Bus-   702 CPU-   703 ROM-   704 RAM-   705 Hard disk-   706 Output unit-   707 Input unit-   708 Communication unit-   709 Drive-   710 Input/output interface-   711 Removable recording medium-   1001 Reverse permutation unit-   1002 Memory-   1011 Parity deinterleaver-   1101 Acquiring unit-   1101 Transmission line decoding processing unit-   1103 Information source decoding processing unit-   1111 Output unit-   1121 Recording unit

1. A receiving device for receiving digital television signals, the receiving device comprising: a receiver configured to receive encoded data, each ten bits of which mapped to one of 1024 signal points of a modulation method; and processing circuitry configured to process the encoded data to produce a group-wise interleaved low density parity check (LDPC) codeword; process the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits to produce an LDPC codeword of an LDPC code; wherein an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, the LDPC codeword of the LDPC codeword has a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179, and the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword has a following sequence of bit groups, 49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175, decode the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code to produce decoded data; and process the decoded data for presentation; wherein the LDPC code has a length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15 and corresponds to a parity check matrix initial value table including the following, 142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125 2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583 899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602 21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616 20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631 9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632 494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625 192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632 11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602 6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623 21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611 335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636 2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617 12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137 710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619 200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526 3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636 3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598 105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587 787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537 15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568 36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585 1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8437 629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612 11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565 2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614 5600 6591 7491 7696 1766 8281 8626 1725 2280 5120 1650 3445 7652 4312 6911 8626 15 1013 5892 2263 2546 2979 1545 5873 7406 67 726 3697 2860 6443 8542 17 911 2820 1561 4580 6052 79 5269 7134 22 2410 2424 3501 5642 8627 808 6950 8571 4099 6389 7482 4023 5000 7833 5476 5765 7917 1008 3194 7207 20 495 5411 1703 8388 8635 6 4395 4921 200 2053 8206 1089 5126 5562 10 4193 7720 1967 2151 4608 22 738 3513 3385 5066 8152 440 1118 8537 3429 6058 7716 5213 7519 8382 5564 8365 8620 43 3219 8603 4 5409 5815 5 6376 7654 4091 5724 5953 5348 6754 8613 1634 6398 6632 72 2058 8605 3497 5811 7579 3846 6743 8559 15 5933 8629 2133 5859 7068 4151 4617 8566 2960 8270 8410 2059 3617 8210 544 1441 6895 4043 7482 8592 294 2180 8524 3058 8227 8373 364 5756 8617 5383 8555 8619 1704 2480 4181 7338 7929 7990 2615 3905 7981 4298 4548 8296 8262 8319 8630 892 1893 8028 5694 7237 8595 1487 5012 5810 4335 8593 8624 3509 4531 5273 10 22 830 4161 5208 6280 275 7063 8634 4 2725 3113 2279 7403 8174 1637 3328 3930 2810 4939 5624 3 1234 7687 2799 7740 8616 22 7701 8636 4302 7857 7993 7477 7794 8592 9 6111 8591 5 8606 8628 347 3497 4033 1747 2613 8636 1827 5600 7042 580 1822 6842 232 7134 7783 4629 5000 7231 951 2806 4947 571 3474 8577 2437 2496 7945 23 5873 8162 12 1168 7686 8315 8540 8596 1766 2506 4733 929 1516 3338 21 1216 6555 782 1452 8617 8 6083 6087 667 3240 4583 4030 4661 5790 559 7122 8553 3202 4388 4909 2533 3673 8594 1991 3954 6206 6835 7900 7980 189 5722 8573 2680 4928 4998 243 2579 7735 4281 8132 8566 7656 7671 8609 1116 2291 4166 21 388 8021 6 1123 8369 311 4918 8511 0 3248 6290 13 6762 7172 4209 5632 7563 49 127 8074 581 1735 4075 0 2235 5470 2178 5820 6179 16 3575 6054 1095 4564 6458 9 1581 5953 2537 6469 8552 14 3874 4844 0 3269 3551 2114 7372 7926 1875 2388 4057 3232 4042 6663 9 401 583 13 4100 6584 2299 4190 4410 21 3670
 4979. 2. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the LDPC code uses a parity check matrix, which includes an information matrix part and a parity matrix part.
 3. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein the LDPC codeword includes information bits and parity bits; and the information matrix part corresponds to the information bits and the parity matrix part corresponds to the parity bits.
 4. The receiving device according to claim 3, wherein the parity matrix part is a lower bidiagonal matrix, in which elements of “1” are arranged in a step-wise fashion.
 5. The receiving device according to claim 3, wherein the information matrix part is represented by the parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table showing in an i-th row, i>0, positions of elements “1” in (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the information matrix part.
 6. The receiving device according to claim 5, wherein if a length of the parity bit of the LDPC codeword is represented by M, the z+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix, z>1, is obtained by the cyclic shift of the (z−1)+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix indicating a position of an element “1” in the parity check matrix initial value table downward by q=M/360.
 7. The receiving device according to claim 6, wherein as for each column from the 2+360×(i−1)-th column to a 360×i-th column being the column other than the 1+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix, if an i-th row j-th column value of the parity check matrix initial value table is represented as hi, j and the row number of a j-th element “1” of a w-th column of the parity check matrix is represented as Hw-j, a row number Hw-j of the j-th element “1” of the w-th column being the column other than the 1+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix is represented by the equation Hw-j=mod (hi,j+mod ((w−1), 360)×M/360, M).
 8. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein the parity check matrix has no cycle-4.
 9. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the input is a tuner.
 10. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the modulation scheme employs non-uniform constellations (NUCs).
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A method performed by a receiving device receiving digital television signals, the method comprising: receiving encoded data, each 10 bits of which mapped to one of 1024 signal points of a modulation method; processing the encoded data to produce a group-wise interleaved low density parity check (LDPC) codeword; processing the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits to produce an LDPC codeword of an LDPC code; wherein an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code has a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179, and the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword has a following sequence of bit groups, 49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175, decoding the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code to produce decoded data; and processing the decoded data for presentation; wherein the LDPC code has a length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15 and corresponds to a parity check matrix initial value table including the following, 142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125 2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583 899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602 21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616 20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631 9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632 494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625 192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632 11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602 6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623 21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611 335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636 2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617 12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137 710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619 200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526 3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636 3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598 105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587 787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537 15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568 36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585 1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8437 629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612 11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565 2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614 5600 6591 7491 7696 1766 8281 8626 1725 2280 5120 1650 3445 7652 4312 6911 8626 15 1013 5892 2263 2546 2979 1545 5873 7406 67 726 3697 2860 6443 8542 17 911 2820 1561 4580 6052 79 5269 7134 22 2410 2424 3501 5642 8627 808 6950 8571 4099 6389 7482 4023 5000 7833 5476 5765 7917 1008 3194 7207 20 495 5411 1703 8388 8635 6 4395 4921 200 2053 8206 1089 5126 5562 10 4193 7720 1967 2151 4608 22 738 3513 3385 5066 8152 440 1118 8537 3429 6058 7716 5213 7519 8382 5564 8365 8620 43 3219 8603 4 5409 5815 5 6376 7654 4091 5724 5953 5348 6754 8613 1634 6398 6632 72 2058 8605 3497 5811 7579 3846 6743 8559 15 5933 8629 2133 5859 7068 4151 4617 8566 2960 8270 8410 2059 3617 8210 544 1441 6895 4043 7482 8592 294 2180 8524 3058 8227 8373 364 5756 8617 5383 8555 8619 1704 2480 4181 7338 7929 7990 2615 3905 7981 4298 4548 8296 8262 8319 8630 892 1893 8028 5694 7237 8595 1487 5012 5810 4335 8593 8624 3509 4531 5273 10 22 830 4161 5208 6280 275 7063 8634 4 2725 3113 2279 7403 8174 1637 3328 3930 2810 4939 5624 3 1234 7687 2799 7740 8616 22 7701 8636 4302 7857 7993 7477 7794 8592 9 6111 8591 5 8606 8628 347 3497 4033 1747 2613 8636 1827 5600 7042 580 1822 6842 232 7134 7783 4629 5000 7231 951 2806 4947 571 3474 8577 2437 2496 7945 23 5873 8162 12 1168 7686 8315 8540 8596 1766 2506 4733 929 1516 3338 21 1216 6555 782 1452 8617 8 6083 6087 667 3240 4583 4030 4661 5790 559 7122 8553 3202 4388 4909 2533 3673 8594 1991 3954 6206 6835 7900 7980 189 5722 8573 2680 4928 4998 243 2579 7735 4281 8132 8566 7656 7671 8609 1116 2291 4166 21 388 8021 6 1123 8369 311 4918 8511 0 3248 6290 13 6762 7172 4209 5632 7563 49 127 8074 581 1735 4075 0 2235 5470 2178 5820 6179 16 3575 6054 1095 4564 6458 9 1581 5953 2537 6469 8552 14 3874 4844 0 3269 3551 2114 7372 7926 1875 2388 4057 3232 4042 6663 9 401 583 13 4100 6584 2299 4190 4410 21 3670
 4979. 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the LDPC code uses a parity check matrix, which includes an information matrix part and a parity matrix part.
 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the LDPC codeword includes information bits and parity bits; and the information matrix part corresponds to the information bits and the parity matrix part corresponds to the parity bits.
 14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the parity matrix part is a lower bidiagonal matrix, in which elements of “1” are arranged in a step-wise fashion.
 15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the information matrix part is represented by the parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table showing in an i-th row, i>0, positions of elements “1” in (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the information matrix part.
 16. The method according to claim 15, wherein if a length of the parity bit of the LDPC codeword is represented by M, the z+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix, z>1, is obtained by the cyclic shift of the (z−1)+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix indicating a position of an element “1” in the parity check matrix initial value table downward by q=M/360.
 17. The method according to claim 16, wherein as for each column from the 2+360×(i−1)-th column to a 360×i-th column being the column other than the 1+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix, if an i-th row j-th column value of the parity check matrix initial value table is represented as hi, j and the row number of a j-th element “1” of a w-th column of the parity check matrix is represented as Hw-j, a row number Hw-j of the j-th element “1” of the w-th column being the column other than the 1+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix is represented by the equation Hw-j=mod (hi,j+mod ((w−1), 360)×M/360, M).
 18. The method according to claim 12, wherein the parity check matrix has no cycle-4.
 19. The method according to claim 11, wherein receiving the encoded data further comprises receiving the encoded data by means of a tuner.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising: receiving encoded data, each 10 bits of which mapped to one of 1024 signal points of a modulation method; processing the encoded data to produce a group-wise interleaved low density parity check (LDPC) codeword; processing the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits to produce an LDPC codeword of an LDPC code; wherein an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code has a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179, and the group-wise interleaved LDPC codeword has a following sequence of bit groups, 49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175, decoding the LDPC codeword of the LDPC code to produce decoded data; and processing the decoded data for presentation; wherein the LDPC code has a length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15 and corresponds to a parity check matrix initial value table including the following, 142 2307 2598 2650 4028 4434 5781 5881 6016 6323 6681 6698 8125 2932 4928 5248 5256 5983 6773 6828 7789 8426 8494 8534 8539 8583 899 3295 3833 5399 6820 7400 7753 7890 8109 8451 8529 8564 8602 21 3060 4720 5429 5636 5927 6966 8110 8170 8247 8355 8365 8616 20 1745 2838 3799 4380 4418 4646 5059 7343 8161 8302 8456 8631 9 6274 6725 6792 7195 7333 8027 8186 8209 8273 8442 8548 8632 494 1365 2405 3799 5188 5291 7644 7926 8139 8458 8504 8594 8625 192 574 1179 4387 4695 5089 5831 7673 7789 8298 8301 8612 8632 11 20 1406 6111 6176 6256 6708 6834 7828 8232 8457 8495 8602 6 2654 3554 4483 4966 5866 6795 8069 8249 8301 8497 8509 8623 21 1144 2355 3124 6773 6805 6887 7742 7994 8358 8374 8580 8611 335 4473 4883 5528 6096 7543 7586 7921 8197 8319 8394 8489 8636 2919 4331 4419 4735 6366 6393 6844 7193 8165 8205 8544 8586 8617 12 19 742 930 3009 4330 6213 6224 7292 7430 7792 7922 8137 710 1439 1588 2434 3516 5239 6248 6827 8230 8448 8515 8581 8619 200 1075 1868 5581 7349 7642 7698 8037 8201 8210 8320 8391 8526 3 2501 4252 5256 5292 5567 6136 6321 6430 6486 7571 8521 8636 3062 4599 5885 6529 6616 7314 7319 7567 8024 8153 8302 8372 8598 105 381 1574 4351 5452 5603 5943 7467 7788 7933 8362 8513 8587 787 1857 3386 3659 6550 7131 7965 8015 8040 8312 8484 8525 8537 15 1118 4226 5197 5575 5761 6762 7038 8260 8338 8444 8512 8568 36 5216 5368 5616 6029 6591 8038 8067 8299 8351 8565 8578 8585 1 23 4300 4530 5426 5532 5817 6967 7124 7979 8022 8270 8437 629 2133 4828 5475 5875 5890 7194 8042 8345 8385 8518 8598 8612 11 1065 3782 4237 4993 7104 7863 7904 8104 8228 8321 8383 8565 2131 2274 3168 3215 3220 5597 6347 7812 8238 8354 8527 8557 8614 5600 6591 7491 7696 1766 8281 8626 1725 2280 5120 1650 3445 7652 4312 6911 8626 15 1013 5892 2263 2546 2979 1545 5873 7406 67 726 3697 2860 6443 8542 17 911 2820 1561 4580 6052 79 5269 7134 22 2410 2424 3501 5642 8627 808 6950 8571 4099 6389 7482 4023 5000 7833 5476 5765 7917 1008 3194 7207 20 495 5411 1703 8388 8635 6 4395 4921 200 2053 8206 1089 5126 5562 10 4193 7720 1967 2151 4608 22 738 3513 3385 5066 8152 440 1118 8537 3429 6058 7716 5213 7519 8382 5564 8365 8620 43 3219 8603 4 5409 5815 5 6376 7654 4091 5724 5953 5348 6754 8613 1634 6398 6632 72 2058 8605 3497 5811 7579 3846 6743 8559 15 5933 8629 2133 5859 7068 4151 4617 8566 2960 8270 8410 2059 3617 8210 544 1441 6895 4043 7482 8592 294 2180 8524 3058 8227 8373 364 5756 8617 5383 8555 8619 1704 2480 4181 7338 7929 7990 2615 3905 7981 4298 4548 8296 8262 8319 8630 892 1893 8028 5694 7237 8595 1487 5012 5810 4335 8593 8624 3509 4531 5273 10 22 830 4161 5208 6280 275 7063 8634 4 2725 3113 2279 7403 8174 1637 3328 3930 2810 4939 5624 3 1234 7687 2799 7740 8616 22 7701 8636 4302 7857 7993 7477 7794 8592 9 6111 8591 5 8606 8628 347 3497 4033 1747 2613 8636 1827 5600 7042 580 1822 6842 232 7134 7783 4629 5000 7231 951 2806 4947 571 3474 8577 2437 2496 7945 23 5873 8162 12 1168 7686 8315 8540 8596 1766 2506 4733 929 1516 3338 21 1216 6555 782 1452 8617 8 6083 6087 667 3240 4583 4030 4661 5790 559 7122 8553 3202 4388 4909 2533 3673 8594 1991 3954 6206 6835 7900 7980 189 5722 8573 2680 4928 4998 243 2579 7735 4281 8132 8566 7656 7671 8609 1116 2291 4166 21 388 8021 6 1123 8369 311 4918 8511 0 3248 6290 13 6762 7172 4209 5632 7563 49 127 8074 581 1735 4075 0 2235 5470 2178 5820 6179 16 3575 6054 1095 4564 6458 9 1581 5953 2537 6469 8552 14 3874 4844 0 3269 3551 2114 7372 7926 1875 2388 4057 3232 4042 6663 9 401 583 13 4100 6584 2299 4190 4410 21 3670
 4979. 